GOD'S Reach

Ever tried to get something from the top shelf, especially at the super market or one of the big box stores? It seems that you just do not have enough reach: you stand on your tip toes, you do the one-legged, tip toe to allow even more reach, yet, it is just out of reach. So, you revert to climbing the shelves in order to get what you need; or, maybe that's just me.

Have you ever felt like that item on the top shelf, just out of GOD'S reach? It seems that you have gone too far, that you have done too much, that you are so far gone that GOD just cannot reach you. Maybe it has been a time when you have sunken down deep into the abyss of sadness or rejection or dejection; you feel you are so deep in the canyon that GOD cannot reach you. Jonah felt that way too...

Today's word is Jonah 2:6, NIV, reads, "To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But You, LORD my GOD, brought my life up from the pit."

Jonah had been directed by GOD to go and preach to Nineveh but he was afraid, maybe a little apathetic, and decided to go somewhere else. BUT, GOD got his attention. And, while Jonah was about as low as he could get, when it seemed that he could get no lower and that he was beyond the limits of GOD'S reach, Jonah realized that no matter how low he got, no matter how far away he moved, no matter how deeply he sank, GOD could still reach him and save him from himself.

No matter what you have done. No matter how bad you have been. No matter how low you have sunk. No matter how far you have run. No matter what - GOD can reach you. All you have to do is call out to Him and He will pull you up from the lowest pit. You are NEVER beyond GOD'S reach.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T