Verse of the Day 12/6

 Psalm 61:1-2  (ESV)Hear my cry, O God,
    listen to my prayer;
²from the end of the earth I call to you
   when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
   that is higher than I,
 

 

When do we cry out to God?  When we need help.  When we realize that  we can't make it on our own.  When we're at the end of our rope or between a rock and a hard place.  Why do we cry out to God in the person of Jesus Christ?  Because if we've read the gospels and the rest of the New Testament, we see that He was and is a man,  our God of action, and will do mighty things for His children.

 

"The spiritual beauty of Christ is Christ-in-action—Christ loving, and Christ touching lepers, and Christ blessing children, and healing the crippled, and raising the dead, and commanding demons, and teaching with unrivaled authority, and silencing the skeptics, and rebuking his disciples, and predicting the details of his death, and setting his face like flint toward Jerusalem, and weeping over the city, and silent before his accusers, and meekly sovereign over Pilate ("You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above,"(John 19:11) and crucified, and praying for his enemies, and forgiving a thief, and caring for his mother while in agony, and giving up his spirit in death, and rising from the dead—"No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again" John 10:18). Such is the glory of Christ." — John Piper  "God is the Gospel"

We call on Him because we know that when our flesh and hearts fail, only He can deliver us, know and forevermore. 

 

Psalm 73:26 (ESV) My flesh and my heart may fail,
   but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

 

Jesus is a Rock in a weary land, a shelter in the time of storm.

 

Blessings,
Mike
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Psalm 61 English Standard Version (ESV).

 ¹Hear my cry, O God,
    listen to my prayer;
²from the end of the earth I call to you
   when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
   that is higher than I,
³for you have been my refuge,
   a strong tower against the enemy.

 ⁴Let me dwell in your tent forever!
   Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings!
                         Selah

⁵For you, O God, have heard my vows;
   you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

 ⁶ Prolong the life of the king;
   may his years endure to all generations!
⁷May he be enthroned forever before God;
   appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!

 ⁸So will I ever sing praises to your name,
   as I perform my vows day after day.