It has often struck me how hard it is to pray in times of deep despair. It is as though the very weight of my despair crushes what little faith I have, so that merely raising the slightest cry for help feels like lifting an enormous stone. But that is enough. The darker our circumstances the more the spark of faith shines brightly before God. In pitch-darkness the tiniest spark of light can be seen from far off. So it is with the slightest call for help in the deepest despair. Lifting up that whimper of a cry for help may seem like moving a mountain but the whimper is amplified in the ears of God as though it were a thousand trumpets. God can save you out of the deepest despair and the darkest depths. All you need to raise is one little finger to God. And by that little finger of faith he will begin to lift you out of the abyss. Let your heart rise-up before God, not only in dark times, but also in good times when you feel yourself losing touch with God. When I feel myself slipping away from God I often feel helpless to reverse the momentum. In these situations, it often seems hard to raise the faith to ask God to turn me around. In these times it isn’t despair that crushes my faith but a wet blanket of complacency that suffocates my desire for God. It is only by raising that whimper of faith that I can, yet again, escape this predicament. Yes, God responds to those who cry out to him.
Ask God to save you from whatever danger you are facing.
Read Psalm 18
