And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. – Psalms 50:15
How many times we are in trouble! Troubles without. Troubles within. Sorrow overwhelming us.
Some troubles because we live in a fallen sinful world, sometimes because of circumstances, sometimes because of other people, sometimes because of bad choices we make, sometimes because of our sin.
Even when we get our own selves in trouble, God does not abandon us. He does not say, if you are worthy, I will deliver you. No. He says call upon me. In the day of trouble. I will deliver thee. And thou shalt glorify me.
What to say? Where to turn? Where to go? When to go? Who to tell? What to do? How to act? I don’t know. You don’t know. God knows. He can.
You may be terrified. That’s ok. This is a day of trouble. Call upon God.
Deliverance against all odds.
Deliverance in all circumstances.
Deliverance when it’s hopeless.
Deliverance when you don’t know the answer, when you don’t know what you want, or what is best.
He will deliver you for His own great name, for His nature of mercy to us. He knows our frame; we are but dust. Our weakness, our infirmity, our sin, our shame.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. – Psalms 103:13-14
2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? 4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. – Psalms 6:2-4
17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: – Jeremiah 32:17
What trouble are you in today? It matters not how you got there. It only matters that you have a God that will deliver.
Lyrics from the gospel song, Troublesome Waters:
VERSE 1
TROUBLESOME WATERS, ARE BLACKER THAN NIGHT,
HIDING FROM VIEW THE HARBOR’S BRIGHT LIGHTS,
OUT ON THE OCEAN I SEEM AS I SPEAK,
AWFUL SEA MONSTERS ARE WAITING MY WRECK.
TROUBLESOME WATERS, AROUND ME NOW ROLL,
ROCKING MY BOAT, AND TEMPTING MY SOUL,
LOVED ONES ARE DRIFTING AND LIVING IN SIN,
TREACHEOUS WHIRLPOOLS ARE PULLING THEM IN,
GENTLY I FEEL THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND,
GUIDING MY BOAT TO THAT BETTER LAND,
LEADING THE WAY TO HEAVEN’S BRIGHT SHORE,
TROUBLESOME WATERS, I’M FEARING NO MORE.
SIN WAVES ARE DASHING AND ROLLING SO HIGH,
OVER THEIR NOISE YOU CAN HEAR MY SAD CRY,
LORD I AM TRUSTING HAVE MERCY ON ME,
STEADY MY LIFE BOAT WHILE I AM AT SEA
GENTLY I FEEL THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND,
GUIDING MY BOAT TO THAT BETTER LAND,
LEADING THE WAY TO HEAVEN’S BRIGHT SHORE,
TROUBLESOME WATERS, I’M FEARING NO MORE.