My Soul Cries Out For God

Thought For Today - August 5
My Soul Cries Out For God
By: Robert A. Searles

My soul cries out for God! I need thee, Oh ! how I need thee, every hour I need thee. When I do not hear from God, I sink in the mire of despair and am despondent. God has promised that he will never leave me, nor forsake me, so that I may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

If I am cut off from God's fellowship it may be that there is sin in my life that I have not confessed and brought before God.  I may be neglecting to eat the bread of life, the word of God. I may have bitter envying and strife in my heart. I may have ought against my brother that needs to be reconciled. Perhaps I had opportunity to do good, and did it not. I may be insulting God by being anxious and worrisome and not trusting God for my daily needs. Whatever the sin may be, greater is the remedy , for "where sin abounds, grace does much more abound," and "if we will confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Can I doubt the care of God for me for today and tomorrow when he has kept me and provided for me through all these years? If God has given his best, the Lord Jesus Christ to be my Savior, will he not with him also give me all things freely to enjoy?

Yes! he will! and he does, and what he will and has done for me, my Christian brother or sister, he will do for you also if you will trust him.