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5/4/2024
9:27:45 AM | |  | |
STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN
Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.
(Joel 2:32)
So why don't I call on His name? Why do I run to this person or that person, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down to plot my own course and make my own plans? Why don't I immediately place myself and my burden on the Lord?
Straight ahead is the best way to run, so why don't I run directly to the living God? Instead, I look in vain for deliverance everywhere else, but with God I will find it. With Him I have His royal promise: "[I] will be saved." And with Him I never need to ask if I may call on Him or not, for the word "everyone" is all encompassing. It includes me and means anybody and everybody who calls upon His name.
Therefore, I will trust in this verse and will immediately call on THE GLORIOUS LORD who has made such a great promise.
My situation is urgent, and I cannot see how I will ever be delivered. Yet this is not my concern, for He who made the promise will find a way to keep it. My part is simply to obey His commands, not to direct His way. I am His servant, not His advisor. I call upon Him and He will deliver me.
(Charles H. Spurgeon) |
