Help Heavenward: Words of Strength and Encouragement for Zion’s Travelers
About the Book
The road to heaven can be difficult. Christ will not leave His people to walk it alone.
You may love the Lord and still feel burdened by remaining sin, daily anxieties, painful trials, and slow spiritual growth. The way can seem dark, and the heart can grow weary. Where can a struggling Christian find strength to keep going?
In Help Heavenward, Octavius Winslow offers tender, searching encouragement for the journey. Drawing continually from Scripture, he directs the reader to Christ’s finished work, the Father’s unchanging love, and the Holy Spirit’s patient work of making believers holy.
Winslow gives particular comfort to those discouraged by how slowly they seem to grow. He explains how God makes His children holy “little by little,” teaching them to depend upon His grace through weakness, temptation, and conflict. Every sin resisted, every temptation overcome, and every step of faith matters in the life God is patiently shaping.
These pages explore the Savior’s gentleness toward the burdened, freedom from condemnation, and the comfort of entrusting every care to Him. Winslow encourages honest self-examination, renewed prayer, and a humble return to God after wandering. He speaks with compassion to those who grieve, those who fear, and those who struggle to believe that the Father will welcome them again.
He also helps readers consider the dark clouds of providence. Sorrow, disappointment, and uncertainty may hide God’s purposes from view, yet they cannot remove His fatherly care. Even painful trials become occasions to know Christ more deeply, loosen our hold on earthly comforts, and draw nearer to our heavenly home.
As the journey approaches the river of death, Winslow lifts the believer’s eyes to the welcome of the Father’s house. Here is lasting comfort for those who fear their final hours or mourn loved ones who have died in Christ. The Savior who redeemed His people will bring them safely home.
Presented in updated English, this edition offers words of strength and encouragement for Christians longing to trust Christ more fully and follow Him more closely.