Pulled Out

I was reading something last night and it got me all excited and I have decided to share so that you can get excited too…

Ps 18: 16-19 (NIV)
He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters,
He rescued me from my powerful enemy from my foes, who were too strong for me.
They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support
He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me

We can all testify that being children of God does not free us from attacks, in fact it makes us number 1 on the devil’s attack list. The point is we face attacks every day, we are troubled every minute, but just as we face trials and persecutions and all what not, God has made reservations for us to excel… In Ps 18 David said that with God’s help, he can walk through a troop and scale a wall. He didn’t say with God’s help there won’t be troops or walls, he was aware that adversaries exist but with God, he’d excel. Another part of the bible also says that when we pass through the waters and fires we won’t be drowned and burned, because God will be with us all through.

What’s so different about the passage above (to me at least)? When I read the passage, I got excited because I saw a physical demonstration of how God rescues us. There are many ways to envision this but let’s take a look at this one… we fall into a well and no one can find anything to help get us out, then comes our father with the longest hands, He reaches into the well (leaning into the well and stretching out His hands towards us) and takes hold of us.., He catches us, He grabs us. It means that in the well we have not reached rock bottom yet, because then we will be beyond redemption, it means we are still sinking, so He comes and first grabs us, then he pulls us out! After He pulls us out, He places us in a spacious place all because He delights in us
Beloved (lol), let our saying (or knowing) that God loves us not become a cliché, let us fully be aware that God does love us and He delights in us. Trials and persecutions will come, we will be afflicted, perplexed, persecuted and struck down, but if our focus is on Jesus and if we are truly confident that He loves us, then we won’t be crushed, despairing, forsaken and definitely won’t be destroyed.

Understand that we all in this together; we are one big family with Christ as the head, and I am encouraging you to keep your heads up and your hands stretched upwards because God will draw you out of that problematic situation, that troubling state and set you down in a place with no limits where you can serve Him reproach free.

Have a peaceful week!