Desperation

It is Friday morning, 10th June, the year 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to 2 Samuel 22:4:

“I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies?”

And then we go straight to Psalm 34:6:

“This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.”

This is of course King David who cried out to the Lord. Why is it that we always wait so long and become so desperate before we call upon the name of our Lord Jesus. We always try to fix things and the problems that we encounter ourselves before, in desperation, we turn to God.

C.H. Spurgeon, the great English preacher, was trying to find answers... He was trying to find the Lord, he was desperate and he was failing. Then one night this country boy, coming home, was caught in a snowstorm. To find shelter, that was the only reason, he slipped into a little country chapel where there was a lay preacher, probably a farm worker, sharing God’s Holy Word. This man read out one scripture verse and it literally saved Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s life and changed it forever. He read out of Isaiah:

“Look to Me, and be saved,…”

Isaiah 45:22

and that scripture verse changed the young man’s course of his life forever. He went on to be an incredible ambassador for Jesus. At the age of 21, in London, they built the London Tabernacle Church for him which could seat no less than 10,000 people. Many of us are looking for help in the wrong place. You won’t find it in education or business or even in the gym. You won’t even find it in your family. All those things are very good but it is faith in God alone, that will save us. Mark 11:22 says:

“Have faith in God.”

Today, look to the Lord and be saved.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.