Dear Missionary Lady,
Greetings in the name of our Savior.
I trust that God is upholding and blessing you. This morning I just want to share brief thoughts on one verse. “And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me” (Psalm 50:15).
In this verse God is speaking to His people, and this is just one of several instructions that started in v. 14. God is not speaking to a specific situation but is giving general instruction. In this verse He tells them what to do in the day of trouble, not something currently happening, but a general admonition for future life. In other words, God is well aware that days of trouble will come. They aren’t unusual when they happen. They don’t take God by surprise. We might be surprised by them, but God never is.
God has a plan for these future days of trouble that He knows will come. His plan is to deliver us so that He receives glory. There’s just one thing that He asks us to do when those days come – call upon Him.
He is already inclined to deliver us and already determined to bring Himself glory through it. He wants us to set that great plan in motion by calling dependently on Him. If we don’t call, but just solve the problem on our own, we take the glory. But if we realize our weakness and need and then call upon God, He delivers, and He gets the glory.
So if the day of trouble is today, or if it is in the unknown future, let us call on God in our need – and then watch Him deliver.
Love in Christ,
Peggy Holt
member at Open Door Baptist Church in Lebanon, PA
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