Deliver Us

The fact that we need someone to deliver us is an interesting concept to consider.

If we can get ourselves out of whatever tricky predicament we find ourselves in, then deliverance is not required. And we certainly won’t need anyone’s help where that’s concerned.

Evidently, however, there are times where we will come into scrapes where we won’t be able to get out of it on our own. Our schemes and plans, our strength and might, our concepts and constructs will prove powerless to address those issues. Some see that as a challenge to keep pressing and pushing on with further innovations and efforts on the notion that it’s just a matter of time until human will and ingenuity forges the way.

While that misnomer abounds the fools will play. There are those, however, who quickly recognise that it is beyond their scope. Under those circumstances they can see the need to cry out to someone greater, someone stronger, someone higher than any other. They can see the need and make the cry.

Having cried out, they can then depend on handing themselves over and surrendering themselves to one who can deliver them. They can do so in the knowledge that He has done so in  time past. They can do so in the hope that He can do so in the present. They can do so with the promise that whatever happens, trusting in Him is the best place to put their trust.

It’s also worthwhile exploring further what it means for us to be delivered …

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden