Where Could I Go But To The Lord*

Many of us have heard the hymn "Where Could I Go But To the Lord" and can identify with with being stressed out when circumstances seem to close in on us.  F.B. Meyer addresses the situations of distress we often face in the following devotional thought: 

As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress. 1 Kings i. 29.

"IN my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God." Never let there be distress without its cry. He will hear your voice out of his temple, and your cry will come before Him even into his ears. He will answer, and set you in a large place. There is even a gain to be won from distress, because it brings out new phases of Christ's redemptive help.

God redeemed David from the calumny of those who maligned him without cause. In so many of his psalms he refers to the unjust and cruel hatred which misrepresented him and his doings. But God, to whom he committed his cause, vindicated him, so that his righteousness shone as the light, and his judgment as the noonday. So He will do for you.

Those who now lay all manner of unkind charges to your door, will be compelled to admit your innocence. Only leave your cause with God, and be still.

God redeemed David from all the afflictions that shadowed his early days: from his wanderings in the wilderness; from his hairbreadth escapes in the caves; from meeting his death on many a terrible battlefield. We hardly realize, just now, how much we owe to the Angel of God's redemption, who is ever beside us, environing us with careful love, so that no evil may approach us, or snare take our feet. Our pathway is thick with shares and dangers, as the pilgrims found it when journeying through the valley of the shadow; but there is a way out, and in the morning we shall marvel to see how we escaped.

God redeemed David's life from destruction. This was the greatest miracle of all, when we consider the strong passions that slumbered within him, breaking out whenever he broke loose from God's grace. -F.B. Meyer, Our Daily Homily (Sermon) Volume 2 (1 Samuel - Job)

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Are You Willing?

F.B. Meyer once asked, “If you are not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?" Jesus said, “Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Mark 8:34).

When Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James, and John to follow him, the Bible says they immediately forsook all and followed Him. They had no second thoughts neither did they take a day or two to pray about it. They just answered the bidding. They were willing to give up all for Christ. Are you willing to give up all and follow Christ?

When The Call Comes?

Jesus called his disciples, Andrew and Peter, to leave their profession of fishermen and follow him with the promise that he would make them fishers of men. God’s call to service always comes with a promise. The promise is that God will make the receiver of the call capable to perform the task ahead.

Peter and Andrew were not the most likely candidates for the task Jesus had for them except for this one outstanding qualification: When Jesus called they responded immediately and answered his bidding.

God does not choose the qualified. He delights in making them qualified. God calls the willing.

May our prayer be: “Lord when you direct my paths, when you call me to serve in any task, let me be willing; and let me respond without hesitation.”


Mark 1:16-18
16  Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
17  And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
18  And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

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The High Calling

And he [John] will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.  He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1:16-17

John’s calling was the highest of callings. In the spirit and power of Elijah, John was to lay the ground work for an awakening of God's people in four areas. 

1)      John was to turn back a forgetful people, so they would once again look to the Lord.  Many had forgotten and forsaken their God.  They were seeking political solutions or revolution to the current rule or Roman.

2)      John was to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers.  Apparently, there was a breakdown in the family.

3)      There was a lack of wisdom in the land; or as in this case, a lack of common sense.  They refused to hear what was just, what was right.

4)      Lastly, John was to prepare the people for the coming Messiah and King.

When you consider the state of Judaism when John preached, you can see similarities with our present age.  Many have forsaken their Christian heritage.  The family and marriage are in a complete meltdown.  Commonsense certainly is not common, and the world needs to prepare for the King of Kings is returning!

John answered his calling.  Will we answer ours?

… when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 (NKJV)

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