Danglers

 Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

 

We’ve all seen those scenes in movies where people are dangling over a cliff or the edge of a skyscraper and they are slowly losing their fingertip grip. Then along comes the hero and stretches his arm out and it just doesn’t quite reach, but he keeps stretching and stretching and at the last moment he is able to grab the danglers hand  and pull him or her to safety.

 

Do you know of any danglers in your life? Who do you know who’s hanging over the cliff of hellfire and damnation? Who do you know who is in danger of slipping into the abyss? Maybe it’s you!

 

Bring that person to the Lord in prayer. Jesus is the only hope for rescue. His arm is never too short and never too weak. And His ears are never so heavy that HE cannot hear our pleas for help.

 

A word of warning. A refusal to turn away from our sins, drowns out our voice “so that HE will not hear.” It is the unmuffled voice of a sincere contrite heart that the Lord responds too as the Psalmist tells us in Ps 51:17, “A broken and contrite heart, These O God, You will not despise.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.