Panicked, I tried yet again, with someone finally answering. Unfortunately, the woman got a little testy with me and eventually transferred me to someone else who actually took the time to listen: A car was swerving all over the highway endangering other drivers, including myself. I shared my opinion that the guy was drunk.
After hanging up, part of me was satisfied that, who knows, I might have saved someone’s life. But another part of me was disappointed and, yes, downright irritated at how the 911 call went.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t emergency calls supposed to be answered promptly? And shouldn’t the operators/dispatchers be good listeners, and calm and re-assuring to those who are calling? I don’t mean to be critical, but the fact is none of those things happened when I needed help. I hung up with a bad taste in my mouth.
In my experience the Lord answers my calls promptly, listens carefully and is always kind in His response. Perhaps most important of all, He has all the resources that I so desperately need.
Fortunately, you don’t have to take my word for it. You can know it for a fact: “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”1
If you’ve been following this blog you know I’ve been calling in a lot of emergencies to my heavenly Father these days. And I’m here to tell you, He’s coming through in a big way.
What about you? What’s your emergency? Do you need mercy and grace to help you in your time of need? Then approach the throne of grace with confidence.
In other words, give your heavenly Father a call. He’ll pick up. I promise.
1 Heb 4:16
