Psalm 18:41
41 They cried, [shava`] but there
was none to save [yasha`] them: even unto the
LORD, [Yahovah] but he answered [`anah] them not. KJV-Interlinear
41 They
cried for help, but there was none to save, Even to the Lord, but He did not
answer them. NASB
When people get into
trouble they call for help.
Some dial 911 to get the
police or ambulance or fire help. When
disaster strikes, there are numerous agencies that come to the rescue for local
disasters or national disasters.
When entire countries are
overrun by enemy armies, then there are national alignments that come to the
rescue, or at least that is the history of humanity when there has been human
oppression.
On a personal level, we
look to insurance, or lucky tickets sometimes, or we even look to family for
help when things get dicey in our lives.
Throughout the course of
history man has looked to unexplored frontiers, frontiers that are accessible
to the general public. But all of those
frontiers have vanished as there are no new continents or unexplored regions
that offer freedom from oppression, or that even offer livable environments.
Certainly the general
public cannot simply pack up and go into space, or to the bottom of the
sea. Those options are not available.
And even though there
have been many outlets to look to, or to escape to, or organizations that offer
assistance, there will come a time when even those options will vanish, and
that leaves humanity with what?
In your personal life,
you always face the prospect of your life ending, and from that there is no
human or earthly alternative.
When history advances
into the Tribulation, and the end of the world really does begin to crash all
around, there will be no insurance, no medical aid to look to, no national or
international organization available for helping the huge numbers of human population
that will be in need of help, from disasters, from roving gangs, from their own
governments. Helplessness will be a very
real reality, and terror, suffering and death will become common place.
And it is this ultimate
final hopelessness both historically for all of humanity and for each
individual person, to which this psalm is referring.
When the bad stuff really
hits the fan and life falls apart for you, and, if you have not dedicated your
life to God, to Christ, to doctrine, to the many mandates that God expects of
you, to the many responsibilities that naturally fall upon you in life, to your
spiritual life as defined and designed by God, then you will be without help,
and no place to turn. And that aloneness
is a very terrible place to be.
As David pursued many of
his enemies, he pursued relentlessly and did not stop his pursuit until he had
caught them and had killed them. And
when he had accomplished that, then and only then did he cease his pursuit. There was no one else to pursue.
And so, God will pursue
evil, and those who reject Him. God will
turn his back on evil and let the world deal with them. And when that happens, your options will have
ceased and there will be nothing, literally nothing, to which you can turn for
rescue or even help.
And, it will all be due
to your indifference, to your faith pretense, to your disobedience to Gods very
simply commands for pursuit of the spiritual life though Christ, through
doctrine (your daily study), and all within the power of the Spirit (confession
and fellowship).
Without these you have no
active relationship with God and no real and reliable disaster aid available
when you need it.
And for those who
regularly reject God and their spiritual life, and then call upon Him in their
time of need, He will not hear. God will
not even give you the courtesy of an answer.
And whose fault will that be?
Your spiritual life and
thus a relationship with God, demands a life in fellowship, and a daily diet of
Bible doctrine for the growth and development of your soul, of your faith,
resulting in the completion of your essence as a living entity as designed and
intended by God.
This, unfortunately, most
people do not pursue. They instead define their own relationship of
convenience, their own spirituality of convenience, their own ideas of
convenience as to what is or is not faith.
And that error is usually never discovered until it is too late. They do not care, are not concerned with
truth, and will therefore pay the ultimate price one day, to their very huge
dismay.
You, however have the
opportunity now, to avoid that terrible existence and end to your life and you
have a much better end to which you can look.
But that however, is only a potential.
You must dedicate your life, your daily life, to a daily study of the
word of God, to a desire to learn, and to the facing of many challenges that
this world will throw at you so as to derail your spiritual advanced.
But if you persevere,
then your life now and your life in eternity will be beyond your wildest
dreams, which is a far, far better end and destiny than you would otherwise get
from this world and your pretended, excuse filled life.
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