Waiting to be unstuck - Devotion for 9/12/07

Waiting to be unstuck – Devotion for 9/12/07

One time when I was young, my Aunt Cordy came to Wilmington to visit for a few days. One particular day when she was at our house all alone, and she had to go out into the garage to get something. When she pulled the door closed, and she suddenly realized that she had just closed a locked door, and she was now locked out of the house. But fortunately for her, she wasn’t all alone – our pet Golden Retriever Rusty was in the garage with her. That is, he was in the garage with her until she mistakenly hit the button to open the garage door, and then Rusty took off running. The very unfortunate thing for Aunt Cordy was that she was only wearing her nightgown and bathrobe. She called out to Rusty to try to get him to come back, but he was gone, and dressed as she was, she wasn’t about to go running off chasing after him. She was stuck, and desperate for someone to come home with a key who could get her unstuck.

You and I have all had some kind of situation that we have been stuck in needing help from someone. Maybe it was embarrassing, or maybe it was desperate, we all know what it is like to feel trapped in a situation. In Psalm 25, David knows what if felt like to be stuck. “My eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will pluck my feet out of the net (Psalm 25:15). David certainly had to feel as if he was stuck in net on several occasions:

• Stuck in the net of the sin of adultery, murder, and the consequences
• Stuck in the net of oppression as he is hunted by Saul
• Stuck in the net of sorrow of his own children’s actions

David had plenty of nets to be stuck in. And although he may not have always made the right decisions which led to him sometimes getting stuck in the net, he sure knew what to do when he got there. He called out to God, and waited for the Lord. Are you waiting to be unstuck from some sort of net of trouble right now? “My eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will pluck my feet out of the net.”