The LORD JESUS is a Refuge for us...

 

“POUR OUT YOUR HEART”

 

“Trust in Him at all time; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us.  Selah.” -Psalm 62:8 [KJV]  


Child of God, come to the throne of grace and let your innermost thoughts and feelings be poured out like water before the secret presence of the Lord.  Hold nothing back, for nothing is hidden from His eyes.  Turn the vessel of your soul upside down and let your private thoughts, desires, sorrows and sins gush out before Him.  


Never think that prayer must wait until you are more spiritual.  Feelings of spirituality are dangerous for in reality, they are feelings of self-righteousness.  In and of ourselves we are never more than sinners needing the blood and righteousness of Christ.  


It is written, “In my flesh dwelleth no good thing” (Romans 7:18).  What warrant then, and what worthiness do we have to draw near so holy a Being?  Our warrant for coming is that He bids us come and Christ, the Lord our Righteousness, is our worthiness.  “Call upon Me and I will answer” (Psalm 91:15).  Come before the Lord as the sinner that you are, but come through the person and work of Christ.  


Do as Hannah did.  “I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit...I have poured out my soul before the LORD” (I Samuel 1:15).  Come as Jeremiah counseled Zion.  “Arise, cry out in the night...pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD” (Lamentation 2:19).  Emulate the Psalmist.  “I have poured out my complaint (my fears and anxieties) before Him; I shewed before Him my trouble” (Psalm 142:2).  


No matter where you are, what your circumstances or how you feel, the Lord is always near His little ones.  Remember what Moses proclaimed to Israel, a type of the church, in Deuteronomy 4:7. “For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon Him for?”  Ours is the prayer-hearing and the prayer-answering God.  “The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry” (Psalm 34:15).  


You don’t need to make a long pilgrimage to have an audience with the King.  His throne of grace is as close as your next breath.  Wherever you are, you always have the abiding presence of the Spirit of intercession and Christ Himself intercedes for you at the right hand of the throne of majesty.  Come with boldness and liberty to the Lord and freely “pour out your heart before Him.”


-preacher Jim Byrd

 

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