The quickest way to be rescued

for they were too mighty for me -- Psalm 18.17

You have to know you need it.  Let yourself exhale in the hopeless place.  Feel it.  Admit it.  Be hopeless and desperate and convinced there's only one person who can help.

Of course, you’d also leave to God the timing of it and for what rescue looks like.  You might have to stare at it before you realize that’s it.  But maybe the biggest hitch to experiencing God’s rescue is something that’s good and honorable and so hard to let go of:  A flicker of hope that somehow you can work things out.

Comments

[Amy Allen]

I love this. I tell my children all the time that they may choose their actions, but not the consequences. So be careful in how they choose, because righteous choices will bring the best consequences, and ultimately the most happiness. Of course my 7 year old son would rather sneak the cookie and get in trouble then not get in trouble but not have the cookie. Hopefully the message with sink in eventually :)

[Bill]

I am going through this every day. I have to give my inability to find a job to God every day. I have been laid off for months and I thought that I should be able to find something quickly. I was depending on myself. I now know that I cannot do it. I must yield and let God give me what I need. We have been taken care of from the beginning I shouldn’t be able to pay my bills with my salary gone but it happens every month. (Praise God) God has shown me that his grace is sufficient. He is in control. Even though I know this I still have to give it to him every day. I know that this problem has been an opportunity for God to draw me closer to him.
I am learning to praise him in my suffering and he is all I need. It is hard to let go of the control that you do not really have anyway. You have to take on his yoke because his yoke is easy.