READ: “I have looked upon My people, because their cry hascome to Me.”—1 Samuel 9:16
REFLECT: One day when I was a child, I watched Betsy, our Cocker Spaniel, push her puppies off the dock into the lake. You should have seen the startled looks on those little faces as they discovered—to their amazement—that the water was capable of holding them up.
I felt a little like that last week when I faced a big disappointment. I seldom cry anymore. I’m much more likely to repress my feelings, bury my sorrow and hide my hurts. But this time all my defenses just went, and I ran into the bedroom and cried. For the first time in a long time, I didn’t hold back. I just let myself fall into the depths and then gradually there arose a strong, solid, sustaining Presence that bore me up.
Today I realize that part of the preciousness of my God lies in the fact that there are depths and that out of those depths I may cry, and that my cry will be heard.
PRAY: Father, if the cry of Your people in biblical times reached You—and You say right there in 1 Samuel 9:16 that it did—then I know my cry reaches You too. Thank You, Lord, for that reassurance from Your Word.
DO: Look up cry in a concordance and see what else God says about crying out to Him.
