Rescue Me

I think if we are all honest, we've been in a place where we feel the need to be rescued. Lately I have been struggling with my own sin, my own lack of faith. I feel like I am enduring many trials. Not that I would ever compare myself to Paul, but we can draw from his wisdom and knowledge, his life. Paul endured many trials and tribulations. Paul was stoned to the point, where they believed he was dead (see Acts 14:1-20). He also spoke of a thorn in his side, a messenger of Satan, to torment me (2 Corinthians 12:7). He was a man who boldly dared to speak out for the Lord, yet the physical, mental/emotional suffering was great. God could have made his life so easy and still made Paul an amazing child of God. Yet he didn't. Paul was constantly met with physical road blocks and mental/emotional ones. We are told he was asking God to rescue him to deliver him from the pain. "Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:8,9) Paul also talks about being rescued in 2 Timothy 3:11, "persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them." So what ever we are going through be it a physical pain or emotional pain, God will rescue us. His grace is sufficient. "The original word for rescue in 2 Timothy 3:11, is rhuomai, which is derived from a word meaning to "drag along the ground" Rhuomai means "to draw or snatch from danger, rescue, deliver."....this is more with the meaning of drawing to oneself then merely rescuing from someone or something." (Beth Moore, To Live is Christ). So through our pain, God is wanting to rescue us, as in Draw us to himself. "...Our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God." Now if we can just find the faith and trust to put in God that he will draw us to him, rescue us, rhuomai. Jesus, rescue me from my sin, myself, draw me into you, no matter the cost. May all our hearts be at a place where we are wanting to be drawn into Jesus.