Thursday, August 30, 2018

The Rescue Squad

         Do you ever feel that you need to be rescued?  I have had several times in my life where a rescue squad was called to assist me during a physical difficulty.   We see everyday people who are being rescued from different types of situations whether they be storm, automobile accidents, fire or any number of natural disasters.  People often need to be physically rescued from all kinds of different occurrences in their lives.  We have even named a portion of our volunteer fire department, "The Rescue Squad."  Their main function is to help people who are in some kind of distress.  The idea of being "rescued" is also seen in the Scripture.  Psalm 35:17 says, "Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the young lions."  
     The Psalmist wanted to be rescued from the "destruction" that was about to take place in his life.  He wanted his soul to be rescued.  There are plenty of situations today whereby we might also cry out to the Lord to rescue us.  There are those situations whereby we are in harm's way when we cry out to be rescued.  There are also those times when we have over scheduled our day and we wonder how we are going to get everything done that we had planned to do that day.  There are schedules, business trips, meetings, things to buy or to fix.  The list can go on and on.  We may even feel that we are at the end of our rope, so to speak, and that we just need to be rescued from the hectic life style in which we find ourselves.  It is comforting for us to know that we, too, can cry out to the Lord and ask for "rescue."   So, if you find yourself under a lot of pressure today, just ask the Lord to "rescue you."  You will not be disappointed and you find rest when the Lord puts things together and gives you peace about it.  Oh, you won't become a "superman" and get everything done, but you may find that with God at the head of your schedule, your priorities will be much different.  Praise God that He will rescue us in the time of difficulty.

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