As I reached into the deep recesses of my purse to find the
office key a penny fell out. I bent to pick it up but it was rolling. So I
followed it! It kept rolling until it hit a floor mat and then it fell over. I
stooped to pick it up and God spoke to my heart.
Many times our lives are like that penny. We roll along, doing our own thing, fully
upright, having a great time. We may not even be reading the Bible or praying
all that much, but hey life is good! We’re “on a roll”!
Then we hit a snag. Something looming in front of us stops
us dead in our tracks. We can do nothing but fall over. The rolling merrily
along comes to a grinding halt and we’re done. We find ourselves flat on our
faces and not enjoying it at all!
There’s nothing left to do when we find ourselves flat except
to cry out to the One who is higher than we are! Who can reach down to help
us? Other people who are having a hard
time? Folks who are having their own great time?
Unless we acknowledge Him as Lord over our “roll”, it’s hard
to believe we can cry out to Him when we’re flattened by life’s circumstances.
But we can! When we realize that we
aren’t the masters of our own fates, we aren’t the ones who punch out our own
lives, we don’t keep ourselves going, keep ourselves up or keep ourselves “on a
roll” we have no problem crying out to God to help us.
Maybe you were on a roll. Everything was as neat as an
entire roll of pennies. You had things in order, you enjoyed your life and it
was good. Suddenly you hit a snag. You came to the edge of yourself and fell
over in pain, discomfort, sorrow, fear, disappointment, disillusionment,
dismay, self-condemnation. You thought you’d be fine, but now you just aren’t fine! You feel like you’ve been
stepped on, kicked over, thrown on the sidewalk or mashed through the vending
machine. You’re hurting and you don’t
know if you can ever get up and walk again, much less get on a roll. Merrily
has been replaced with barely and you’re hurting.
Oh beloved! Don’t despair! Cry out to Jesus, for He has been
following you all along. He has been watching over you, hoping that you would
stop the chaos and give Him some time. He may have let you fall on your face,
but only to seek Him. He may have watched the events of your life unfold, but
He was never disinterested. He had wonderful
plans for you before the foundation of the world. He still has wonderful plans
for you. He will pick you up and set you on a fresh course of freedom and joy
as you put your hope, your plans and your future in His hands. It doesn’t matter how you got to this point.
All that matters is that God sees your plight and hears your cries.
Go ahead, call out to Him no matter what your situation
because He loves you and He’s for you and He will answer and restore you every
time.
Psalm 119:93 I will never forget Your precepts, For by
them You have revived me.
Psalm 119:67-68 Before I was afflicted I
went astray, but now Your word do I keep [hearing, receiving, loving, and
obeying it]. You are good and kind and
do good; teach me Your statutes. (AMP)
Lamentations 3:55-56 But I called on your
name, Lord, from deep within the pit.
You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading! Hear my cry for help!
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (NAS)
Psalm 107:2 … Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! (entire chapter)
Isaiah
59:1 Listen! The LORD's arm is not too weak to save you, nor is His ear too
deaf to hear you call.
Jeremiah
32:17 O Sovereign LORD! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and
powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!
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