You're in God's Life-Saving Care

In reading through the Old Testament, it doesn't take long to see the repetition of God's desire to help His people and His provision for doing just that.  We have a God that not only saves us at the moment of our conversion, but a God who seeks to save us every single day.  You might be thinking, that sounds a bit dramatic for daily life, but is it really?  I would venture to say that when we get to Heaven it will be revealed to us all the ways the Lord indeed did help and save us on a daily basis both from ourselves, from the enemy or from real and present danger.  We are indeed in God's life-saving care.

Let's look to Scripture for reinforcement of that very fact...

Will  God Help Me?

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.

The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations.

“When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.  Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts,

 and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings

 and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Numbers 10:8-10

In this passage of Numbers, the Lord gives specific instructions on how to craft a trumpet that will not only be used to summon the congregation when it's time to break camp, but this very trumpet was also to be used to "cry out to God" when the enemy oppressed AND to praise God when their hearts were glad.  

The Lord has not put us on this earth to fend for ourselves.  He put us here to wholly depend on Him and through that dependence, Glorify Him.

He has also not left us to figure out a way to depend on Him, but has provided the tools to have direct access to His guidance and strength.   In the above passage from Numbers, we see that the Lord provided the blueprint for the trumpets which were to be used to call out to God and to praise His Holy name.  In the same way, the death and resurrection of Jesus rent the veil between God and man, and made a way for us to have direct contact with our Lord and Savior through the power of the Holy Spirit by prayer.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, 

that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16

Sadly, and I'm preaching to myself here, we don't avail ourselves of all that God provides for life and living.  We instead limp along, trying to do things in our own strength.  

If we get right down to it, man cannot successfully function without the Lord.  He has designed us to operate through His power and strength alone.  Any other way is futile and does not bring glory to God.

And we certainly can't fight our enemy Satan in our own strength!  Only God's power can thwart Satan's lies.

The Lord tells us to "sound an alarm" - cry out to Jesus!  And He will save us from our enemies.  The moment you feel tempted or start to believe one of Satan's lies -  Cry out to Jesus!

God's Helps Us Through 

God is our refuge and strength,

    a very present help in trouble.

 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,

    though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,

 though its waters roar and foam,

    though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

    the holy habitation of the Most High.

 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;

    God will help her when morning dawns.

 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;

    he utters his voice, the earth melts.

 The Lord of hosts is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

 Come, behold the works of the Lord,

    how he has brought desolations on the earth.

 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;

    he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;

    he burns the chariots with fire.

 “Be still, and know that I am God.

    I will be exalted among the nations,

    I will be exalted in the earth!”

 The Lord of hosts is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Psalm 46

He has promised to save you.  Not only at the moment of salvation, but every minute of every day you are in His life-saving care.

The Scriptures, ESPECIALLY the Old Testament, are filled with examples of God's ever-present help and unfailing faithfulness.  

Every trial and even every temptation is an opportunity to see God's unfailing faithfulness in action.  But we must cry out to Him first.  He bids us to come to Him.

I just love Third Day's, Cry out to Jesus, which encourages us to do just that.  Please listen and be blessed.

Cry out to Jesus

Third Day

And once you've cried out to Jesus and you experience His Faithfulness and your hearts become glad, blow the trumpets - Praise Him!  

God is worthy of our praise!  In fact, we could never praise Him enough for all that He has done for us, is doing for us and will do for us.

Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

Psalm 145:3

I am so grateful that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me with an everlasting love, who is my Wisdom, my Strength, my Courage, my Peace, my Protector, my Savior, my constant and ever-present Friend.

Please share in the comments below a recent praise for His Great Faithfulness.

We are all in God's Life's Saving Care.

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