When all hope seems lost...

"Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might...Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me...he has delivered me from all my troubles..." (Psalm 54:1, 4, 7)

In this Psalm, David is crying out to God while fleeing from Saul. 1 Kings 23:14 says "David stayed in the desert strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

God is sovereign. We should remember that whenever we face trials in our lives, when we face struggles with people, God is there. What comfort there is to know that the God the creator of the universe) is there for us (a vapor in the wind) in our time of need. Indeed, there will be sometimes in our lives where God is the only person there for us. Why is he there for us? What did we do to merit His grace? Nothing. He is there for us, ultimately, so when there seems no way out of the situation we're in and we are like David hiding in our cave while the Sauls of our life are after us, we will HAVE to turn to God. It is in these trials of life that we know without a doubt that God is real and that He is soveriegn and that He is righteous and that He helps us and sustains us.

When David's life was literally on the line, David reveals to us three attributes of God.

1) He is our Rescuer (v.1)
2) He is our Sustainer/Helper (v.4)
3) He is our Deliverer (v.7)

Our Lord God, not only the creator and ruler of this universe but also our personal rescuer, sustainer and deliverer. Praise be to God!