God of Rescue

UV 4244/10000 God of Rescue Call on Me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you shall honour and glorify Me. Psalm 50 v 15 Troubles are occasions for us to draw close to God. It is an opportunity for us to taste and see that He is truly good. It is an opportunity to know Him better. It is an opportunity for the Lord to reveal His power and grace to us. When the Lord delivers us from any kind of trouble and we become aware that it is He who delivered us, we shall be grateful to Him, we shall honour Him and glorify the Father in heaven. Even Jesus, the only Son begotten, called out to the Lord in His day of trouble as He faced the greatest trial ever faced by any human on earth. Thereafter, Jesus magnified the name of the Father through the entire world after He was delivered from death and resurrected. In the same Psalm, it is written that he who offers a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving honours the Lord. He also “orders his way” to be in conformity with the word and will of God. Such a person does not deliberately fall into temptation or invite trouble on his head. Ordering one’s way is a beautiful biblical expression that implies that one is wise and careful with his words, actions and choices such that it does not bring trouble to himself or to others. The promise of rescue is topped up in the end of the Psalm that the Lord will show His salvation of God to such a person. In other words, it is not a man-made salvation or deliverance but a God-ordained, arranged deliverance. Every trouble He turns into a testimony, a cause for praise and thanksgiving. The Lord will hearken to our call or cry when we are attentive to His word and obey His word. If we are not mindful of this, He too will ignore our prayers in the time of our trouble. We cannot, therefore, like most of mankind wait for trouble to happen before we call out to the Lord for help. Those who have an intimate and personal relationship with the Lord can, however, rest assured that the Lord will not only hear our prayers but rush to our help. He is the God of Rescue. He revels in rescuing His own, His children. Once the trial or trouble is over, we should not forget the ways in which He has rescued us from every kind of torment and temptation. We should give thanks with a grateful heart to the Lord for every instance of deliverance. There is no trouble from which the Lord cannot deliver the faithful- be it financial, health-related, relationship, family crisis, physical threats or death threats, accidents or attacks of any kind. He delivered Paul from ship wreck, prison, snake bite, unjust punishment and so on. He delivered the companions of He delivered me from a human bomb, from a drowning death, from various other threats in the course of my thirty four year long career, ending tomorrow.