Even The Faintest Call

Joel 2:32  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Why do I not call on His name? 

Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? 

Why do I sit down and devise schemes and invent plans! 

Why not at once roll myself and my burden upon the LORD? 

Straightforward is the best runner - why do I not run at once to the living God? 

In vain shall I look for deliverance anywhere else; but with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal "shall" to make it sure.

I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word "whosoever" is a very wide and comprehensive one. 

Whosoever means me, for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. 

I will therefore follow the leading of the text and at once call upon the glorious LORD who has made so large a promise.

My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. 

He who makes the promise will find out ways and means of keeping it. 

It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. 

I am His servant, not His solicitor.

I call upon Him, and He will deliver me.

~Charles Spurgeon