We have all had it happen. We are busy in one room, maybe cooking in the kitchen, and we hear a crash or a wail or even a scream coming from where our children are supposedly quietly playing. Then, we hear, “Mom, I need you. Mooommm!” We then quickly head that way to find out what the crisis is and deal with it. We leave the dinner prep behind to address the more immediate concern, right? Now, apply this scenario to God.
Imagine, if you will, that God is in heaven, doing all of what He does daily, like offering grace and mercy to the undeserving, protecting the foolhardy and generally just being God. I cannot describe what He does but there is evidence all around us that He is busy working for us all the time. Then, crisis! A bad health diagnosis, a car accident, anything that causes us to cry out to God as if we were on fire.
God comes to our rescue because we are calling on him, much as our children know to call out to us when they feel that they need help. God answers because He loves us and sets aside time to deal with our problems. Now, I don’t think that God deals with one problem for one person at a time. After all, He is omnipresent, omniscient and the God who is all powerful. But He does address our issues as a loving Father would. That is a picture that I like keeping in my mind. God cares enough that when I approach His throne with humility and need, He begins to comfort, calm me and work in the issue right away. I may not see the answer immediately, but I feel His presence right away. Just as my walking into the room where the child is wailing calms the crying and hysteria…they know that I am there to help and that I will do all I can to make things better. God does the same for us, and we are blessed to be able to go before Him and tell Him exactly what is happening to cause our distress. He doesn’t tell us to go away and come back later or act like we called at a bad time and put us on hold. Always there, always waiting for us to call out to Him. That is the God that I serve and love with all my heart!
