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Psalm 25:15-18
"My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release my feet from the snare. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins."

King David learned and embraced the Truth that God alone can save, redeem, rescue and restore us from those things stronger than we are. Sin is a tyrant and a cheat, promising to comfort and sustain when it is a thief, a torturer and a slaughterer.

Understanding that salvation, human flourishing, wholeness of life, clear direction, true comfort and goodness only come from God is what Holy Scripture calls "the fear of the Lord." Nothing in this world can satisfy the longing for home, identity, and peace but the Lord Jesus. He alone has done for humanity that which humanity could never approach by human effort or prowess.

Only Jesus Christ can take that which is essentially, spiritually dead and make it live anew. And not like the resuscitation of a corpse, but raised to a new life, a new creation, alive with the very Life of God being lived in the rescued believer.

Life change comes and life transformation results because God begins a heaven-initiated good work within the one who believes God, trusting in His sovereign ability to save and restore. Life change is evidence that New Life now resides in a person.

Proverbs 3:5-8
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Trust the Lord and He will give you success. Respect the Lord and refuse to do wrong. Then your body will be healthy and strong."

God alone gives salvation. God alone empowers us to obediently follow Him and to rely on Him in every and all circumstances. Like King David, we learn to follow by following, to believe God because God cannot lie. What He has spoken will take place. When God speaks into our lives, what He speaks is created in us and will come to pass.

We wait expectantly on the Lord because He has made it clear that we are to be conformed to the Image of His eternal Son, Jesus Christ. Call out to Him and surrender all that weighs on you, all that afflicts you at this moment. You will see His salvation.

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