If Disaster Comes Upon Us

Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 19-20; Acts 7:20-40


2 Chronicles 20:9 ‘If disaster comes upon us--sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine--we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’

Disasters come to everyone at one time or another and when they come it's important that we know what to do. Our security isn't found in our emergency preparedness, or our government or any other human agency, our security is in the Lord. Our first response when facing affliction should always be to cry out to the Lord for help. Typically our first response is to try and solve the problem our selves or even to try and deny reality but none of those efforts will have any real and lasting impact outside of God's intervention and help.

What we need to remember is that God wants us to call out to Him in times of trouble, it doesn't bother Him and he doesn't get tired of helping us. His desire is to show Himself strong on our behalf and to reveal Himself more clearly to us through our trials. So don't hesitate to call out to Him when disaster comes because He is waiting to answer.