Are You in a Strait?
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It is possible that you are entangled within the meshes of a present difficulty, to the unravelment of which no clue presents itself, and from which there appears no way of escape. Human ingenuity is baffled, creature strength fails, all earthly means are exhausted, and you are at your wits’ end. Behold your remedy, how near, how simple—go and tell Jesus. Take your difficulty and spread it before the Lord. Your appeal to His compassion, and your believing reliance upon His promise, will secure on your behalf infinite wisdom and omnipotent strength.
Listen to the divine declaration, simple faith in which will raise you above your circumstances: “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is anything too hard for Me?” Then, what is your present entanglement, great though it be, to Him, “with whom nothing is impossible”?
In a moment, and by a way transcending all your thoughts and conceptions, He can “pluck your feet out of the net,” and bring you into a “large place where there is no straitness.” Pore not despairingly over your obstacles, faint not under your adversity, sit not down, stunned and paralyzed, upon the stone of difficulty, asking, “Who will roll it away?”—here is your effectual remedy, adopt it in faith and you shall be delivered—go and tell Jesus.
Enlist Him on your side, retain Him as your Counselor, honor Him by committing your case to His skill, power, and willingness, and He will guide you through all the intricacies of your position, making the rough path smooth, and the crooked path straight. Jesus has power to rescue you from all your entanglements. He can level the mountain, lift up the valley, roll aside the rock, and clear your way to an equitable, honorable, and happy adjustment of all your worldly difficulties. Only make use of Him. Only honor Him. Only confide in Him. Only call upon Him.
All hearts are in His hand, all resources are at His command, all agencies are at His disposal; nothing is impossible with Jesus but to deny Himself—this He cannot do. Then, “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.”
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