"IS MY HAND SHORTENED AT ALL, THAT IT CANNOT REDEEM?" These are questions for unbelief, perchance your unbelief? If God can deliver, if He has promised to deliver, why then these fears, this gloom, and this perplexity? Look your difficulty full in the face, walk round it and examine it on every side, and when you have done so, answer your Lord's question, "Have I no power to deliver?" You may apply it to sin: its guilt, its power, its consequences. You may apply it to Satan: his malice, his craft, his determined opposition to you. You may apply it to the world: its snares, its persecution, its seduction. You may apply it to any or all the circumstances in which you may find yourself. Cannot your God deliver you? Is His arm shortened, that it cannot save? Or is His ear heavy, that He cannot hear? If not, why doubt? Why art thou cast down? Hope thou in God, for thou shalt yet praise Him. Grieve him no more by your unbelief, but trust in His word. Call upon His name, look to Him, and He will show you that He has power to deliver. He will exert it on your behalf. He says, "Call upon me, and I will deliver thee."

For Meditation:
Jesus, the power of Thy name
Today as yesterday the same,
We all are called to prove;
No end is of Thy mercies found,
We cannot stop Thine arm or bound
The omnipotence of love.