“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.” (Isaiah 55:6)

Have you ever been those situations where things just got out of control right before your eyes? You start reacting to all the information and putting out the fires as best as you can. But you quickly realize that help is needed, so you reach out to the most trusted people you know. They of course jump right in and soon the disaster calms down. In the postmortem analysis you look back at all your decisions that lead up to the demise and can’t put your finger on how things could have been done differently to avoid the outcome you just went through. Then one of the people who jumped in to help unravels this mystery for you. They ask you, “Why didn’t you call us sooner? If you asked for help earlier, you could have avoided this whole problem.” In hindsight you think about their comment and come to the only natural conclusion – they were right. I believe this is what Isaiah was relaying in today’s verse. God is always available, and if we earnestly pray for His intervention He will “jump in” by doing what’s best for us in that time. But we should have this “Come to God” moment before it’s too late; before things get too far out of hand. You see, as soon as our problems become too overwhelming for us alone, we start reacting in ways that are often not helpful, and at times not even appropriate. We start acting on our own forgetting that God is our source of help. In doing this we push God away. I think this verse is reminding us to ask for help; to pray to God before things get out of control; going to God before making the mess bigger in our own self efforts. So today, know that God is with us – “seek Him while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.”