Years ago I used to visit an elderly lady in a nursing home. This dear saint was suffering from dementia. I had not known her before this awful disease robbed her of most of her mental capabilities, but I was told that she was a wonderful Christian woman.

At this point in her life, her vocabulary consisted of 4 or 5 short phrases that she repeated over and over. I only remember one of those phrases: “God’s the helper.”

The last thing that we should ever forget is that God is our helper. Psalm 54:4 says, “Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.”

Regular participation in communion is an excellent way to remember the help that God has given us through his Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior.