Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me (Ps. 50:15).
Again and again God urges us to call upon Him, but this is an urgent occasion--the day of trouble, when it is dark at noon and the sky gets blacker every hour. In such an emergency the Lord invites us to lay our case before Him, and He reassures us, "I will deliver thee." Then we are to glorify Him.
Let us never forget that the Lord is our strength, our fortress, and our refuge in the day of affliction (Jer. 16:19). He is the "God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation" (2 Cor. 1:3, 4).
Christian biography testifies to God's deliverance of His servants. As a child, John Wesley was delivered from a burning house. Under his portrait there is a house in flames with the inscription "Was not this a brand plucked from the burning?" (See Zech. 3:2). Thomas Guthrie had a miraculous escape on the cliffs of Arbroath. John Knox was delivered in arising from his chair a second or two before it was shattered by a bullet. John Howard escaped the hand of an assassin, and George Washington had a similar experience in White Plains. David Livingstone sometimes met with as many as three hairbreadth escapes in a single day. Some of us count our burdens more than our blessings, but let us think of God's many deliverances and say, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" (Ps. 103:2).
When the storm is raging, or a dark mood is upon us, let us look at the beautiful Jesus. Let us say, "Christ, the Son of God, loves me, and He died to save me." Then we shall praise Him as did Charles Kingsley, who wrote, "Must we not thank, and thank forever, and toil, and toil forever, for Him?"
MEDITATION PRAYER: "But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me" (Ps. 109:21).
Again and again God urges us to call upon Him, but this is an urgent occasion--the day of trouble, when it is dark at noon and the sky gets blacker every hour. In such an emergency the Lord invites us to lay our case before Him, and He reassures us, "I will deliver thee." Then we are to glorify Him.
Let us never forget that the Lord is our strength, our fortress, and our refuge in the day of affliction (Jer. 16:19). He is the "God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation" (2 Cor. 1:3, 4).
Christian biography testifies to God's deliverance of His servants. As a child, John Wesley was delivered from a burning house. Under his portrait there is a house in flames with the inscription "Was not this a brand plucked from the burning?" (See Zech. 3:2). Thomas Guthrie had a miraculous escape on the cliffs of Arbroath. John Knox was delivered in arising from his chair a second or two before it was shattered by a bullet. John Howard escaped the hand of an assassin, and George Washington had a similar experience in White Plains. David Livingstone sometimes met with as many as three hairbreadth escapes in a single day. Some of us count our burdens more than our blessings, but let us think of God's many deliverances and say, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" (Ps. 103:2).
When the storm is raging, or a dark mood is upon us, let us look at the beautiful Jesus. Let us say, "Christ, the Son of God, loves me, and He died to save me." Then we shall praise Him as did Charles Kingsley, who wrote, "Must we not thank, and thank forever, and toil, and toil forever, for Him?"
MEDITATION PRAYER: "But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me" (Ps. 109:21).
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