The Escape from No Escape

S - Psalm 18:17-19 (NIV): "He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me."

O - All of us will face enemies too powerful for us to overcome on our own.  Not only so, but we will not be able, on our own, to avoid or escape from them either.  Such enemies (spiritual, internal, circumstantial, tangible, etc.) will confront us and loom large with a conclusion of absolute disaster.  If there were no other dynamic in this scenario the inevitable outcome would be crushing devastation. David's deliverance came not because of his effort or prowess but because of his God.  The difference had very little to do with David and everything to do with the Lord who was and is his support (Hebrew noun: a support (concretely), that is, (figuratively) a protector or sustenance: - stay). The result of calling on and trusting in the Lord is the exact conclusion the Lord desired all along … bringing David to a spacious place where ongoing relationship with him grows and deepens.  In this place we not only learn and participate in his deeds but in his ways.

A - This is my ongoing experience.  Not just once or twice but many times this confrontation has occurred in my life with a wide range of enemies.  The beauty of such trial and terror is the One who calls me to himself and to his purposes on earth.  His faithful, powerful, tender and brilliant ways well up to create in me ongoing transformation as well as a rescue which ends in a spacious place underserved and unexpected.  On him have I set my hope and in this day I am to confidently rely on him … no matter what I face or where he leads me.

P - Lord who rescues, delivers and supports,
Praise you for this day and for everything which has transpired to this very moment … everything! Lord, be my support, my deliverer and rescue again and again as you reveal yourself and your ways to me.  Lord, lead me on to the broad, spacious and beautiful place you have prepared.  Let me follow in the confidence your person rightfully inspires and my littleness needs and wants! Please fill my eyes, mind, heart, spirit, soul, hands, feet, mouth and ears with faith so I may please you and love you back as I ought … for you are marvelous beyond words and all my hope is in you.
Love,
Steve