Deliverance

"You have allowed me to suffer much hardship but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth." Psalm 71:20 (NLT)

        Sometimes God allows the pain and hardship of life to affect us. The reason is because He yearns to show us the power He has over the most difficult of circumstances we may confront, to show us His true power in light of our most challenging obstacles.

       The Psalmist wrote this passage with a heavy heart, but he implicitly understood that his deliverance was at hand, that God was going restore him once again. The lesson here is simple. When it seems like we have suffered or endured too long, our deliverance is close at hand. In fact, it may be closer than we even think. Have faith and make it through for God is with you.

-Amen