As it seems to me, hurt has been very close to follow me this year. And it seems to intensify as the year progresses. Today I find my comfort in knowing that in spite of hurting worse than I ever have, I have done the right thing.
God has a plan. I do NOT get it, but He still has one. I am learning to trust. Which is so hard. But I am still going to do it. It's all i've got.
"And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered" (Joel 2:32).
Why do not I call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans? Why not at once roll myself and my burden upon the Lord?
Straightforward is the best runner--why do not I run at once to the living God? In vain shall I look for "deliverance anywhere else; but with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal shall to make it sure.
I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word "Whosoever" is a very wide and comprehensive one. Whosoever means me, for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. I will therefore follow the leading of the text, and at once call upon the glorious Lord who has made so large a promise.
My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver. --C. H. Spurgeon
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