My Devotion

Prayer
O God, who through the gace of your Holy Spirit, pours the gift of love into our hearts... grant us health, both of mind and body, that we may love you with our whole strength, and with glad hearts may perform those things which are pleasing unto you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Psalm 50

Reflection
"Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me" In midst of our troubles there exists ready and able savior to deliver us. Some of us who find trouble or trouble finds us, fail to recognize the deliverance from our God. We think that our deliverance should be thus or this and we do not once understand what it is that truly holds us captive. There was a time in my life when I owned my own business... or should I say a business owned me... when things were going bad in terms of my ability to keep this business afloat, I prayed with the full conviction that deliverance meant my financial gain... actually, what the Lord did in allowing my business to run aground has served for his glory and my deliverance, though at the time I could not and did not see it that way. There are many times in our gospel texts that Jesus overlooks the very thing that we consider deliverance and instead he delivers us from what he believes is our true captive... the Psalmist reports the Lord's directive today to call on him in our day of trouble... and the promise it made by God that he will deliver us... resulting in our praise and adoration... resulting in his glory. I have to asked myself when I call on the Lord what it is that I am asking for? His results or my own? His glory of my own? His deliverance or my own? Lord, grant me insight this to seek what you seek and to embrace your deliverance... for your glory. Amen.