IN MY DISTRESS

Today's reading: Psalm 117-118

"In my distress I prayed to the Lord, and the Lord answered me and rescued me." Psalm 118:5 NLT

Our lying, cheating, thief of an enemy likes to make us think we must have our lives cleaned up, our messes straightened out and our issues corrected BEFORE we can call out to the Lord for help.

That's a lie!

It's in our messiness, in our gutters, in our depths of despair that we realize how desperately we need a Savior.

It's in the middle of long dark nights, while the storms rage about us, when our minds and hearts seek for a safe harbor that we know we need more, much more, than we can do for ourselves.

It's in those places, those low places, where we are most in need, most vulnerable and most open to all God has to offer us.

So where you are, whether it's chaotic or ordered, grubby or dusted and swept clean, wrong or right--call out to Him.

He will answer you.

From where ever you are.