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It’s been one of those seasons where I find myself crying out to God to deliver me…to rescue me.

I’m pretty sure you’ve felt that way. Maybe you’re feeling that now.

The situation never seems to get better; in fact, it gets worse. It’s like the storm before the beautiful rainbow in the sky.

But I long for that rainbow. And I cry out, “God, when will you rescue me?”

I’m aware of James 1:2-4  (my sweet husband reminds me of it): “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

That word complete. My study Bible says that it “expresses the perfection of man before the Fall.” So the trials, troubles, tribulations…they’re shaving off the barnacles of my fallen nature and returning me to what God meant for me to be.

Katie Martinez, one of our pastors, referred to the psalms of disorientation this week when we talked about my current situation. David understood needing rescue.

Today Psalm 22 speaks to my heart and situation: “be not far from me, for trouble is near” (:11)

“Deliver me” (:20) “Save me” (:21)

Psalm 22:21 has a choice word in it that speaks God’s love and care and tenderness to me.

In the KJV: “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.”

My darling? Yachid.

Hold on because this tells us how our tender God sees us in times of distress. Yachid means alone and forsaken. It refers to the preciousness of a unique individual.

This is my God!

And there’s more!

Psalm 22:8: “Commit yourself to the Lord; let Him deliver him; Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him.”

This verse is prophetic about Jesus. And it’s truth for us.

Deliver? Natsal.

Natsal is to be snatched out of, saved, freed. It is to escape or be pulled out of the situation. In 2 Samuel 14:6, Natsal is used to refer to two sons fighting with one another with no one to pull them apart.

This is my God!

I know that what I’m facing is having its perfect work in shaping me to be who God created me to be. The length of this trial will have its result–no matter how much I long for it to be over.

And I am assured that in the end, my God will deliver me. The thing that I am entangled with in a battle will end. God will snatch me away from the pain and He will give me an escape path.

This is my God!