READ: MARK 10:47-49
There are
times when the only thing you have to do to get results is to utter a cry of
desperation unto God. The Scripture is replete with examples of people who
expressed their desperation by crying unto God without any inhibitions. In
Psalm 3:4, the Bible says, “I cried to the LOR with my voice, and He
heard me from His holy hill. Selah” Blind Bartimaeus cried out to
attract the attention of Jesus Christ (Mark 10:47-49). He shouted until Jesus
Christ stood still. When Peter walked on water and was about drowning the
little moment he took his eyes off Jesus, he had to shout for help (Matthew
14:30). It is whatever you have inside you that emerges whenever you are faced
with a crisis. At a time of crisis if you have the Holy Spirit in you, the Holy
Spirit will speak out of you. If all that the son of the prophet said was
“Alas”, then we could say it was the cry of the hopeless. The axe-head at the
bottom of a deep river is a hopeless situation. None of the sons of the
prophets could swim. River Jordan was not a clean river, judging from what
Naaman said about it in 2 Kings 5:12. But how God brought hope into hopeless
situation! There is Someone who is the hope of the hopeless. In Colossians 1:27,
the Bible says: “To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of
this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
When Jesus Christ comes into a hopeless situation, it becomes no more hopeless.
The story of Lazarus is case study here (John 11). By adding “master” to his
cry, the son of the prophet changed his cry to that of a desperate man. He
admitted that his case was hopeless and knew that there would be a change
because Elisha was at hand. People in desperation normally cry out to the
helper. Jesus Christ is the True Master. He is the Word from the beginning: the
One who is the Light of the world; the One who is the Rock of Ages; the Alpha
and the Omega; the only One who can say: “I AM WHO I AM.” A leper came to Him
in Matthew 8:1-3 with a cry of desperation. However, he was not sure whether
Jesus Christ would heal him. Do you want to utter a cry of desperation to the
Lord? Cry unto Him and He will meet you at the point of your need.
MEMORIZE:
PSALM 37:39 –But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their
strength in the time of trouble.
