“Deep Calls to Deep”

When the church in Rome was suffering under the persecution of the Roman Emperor Nero, the Apostle Paul wrote to encourage them. In Romans 8:28, Paul wrote:

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Paul also wrote in Romans 5:3-4 

“but we also glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.”

Suffering drives us into the arms of Jesus like nothing else can. When we suffer, we are confronted with the reality that we desperately need the Lord.

When things are going well, we often don’t realize how dependent we are on our relationship with Jesus to get through life. But when things turn bad, we run to the Lord and cry out to Him in the depths of our anguish, as we should.

Deep calls to deep, as King David wrote in Psalm 42. From the depths of our despair, we cry out to God. From the eternal depths of God’s mercy and love our deepest longings are met and our deepest pain is healed, and we discover that the Lord is with us in our suffering in ways that we don’t appreciate when things are going well. It’s in these intimate encounters with God when we are in greatest need of His help that we will experience His transforming work in our lives.

In Christ, 

Pastor David

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