“The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation” (Ps. 18:46). Christian, how strongly do these words resound within your soul? Strongly enough that when you are overwhelmed, you take refuge our rock and fortress, our deliverer (Ps. 18:2)? Or do you retreat into yourself and your own resources?

Brethren, His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than our thought (Isa. 55:9). Yet He cares for us, so we should humble ourselves before Him and lay our anxiety at His feet (1 Pet. 5:6-7).

We will have times where we are overwhelmed, where the cares of life seem too great to overcome. Jesus said that we would have troubles in this world, and that we should not be overwhelmed, but take courage, because He has overcome the world (Jn. 16:33).

Let us then seek Him out, and as He says, not be anxious about anything, but come to Him in prayer, with thanksgiving, so that He may give us peace (Phil. 4:6-7).

Be not overwhelmed. Be not overwhelmed; come sing for joy to Him (Psalm. 95:1), the only rock, the rock of our salvation (Psalm. 62:2), the rock of our strength, and take refuge in Him (Psalm. 67:7).

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Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, September 22

"When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I." Psalm 61:2

Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends like a vessel mastered by the storm. Discoveries of inward corruption will do this, if the Lord permits the great deep of our depravity to become troubled and cast up mire and dirt. Disappointments and heart-breaks will do this when billow after billow rolls over us, and we are like a broken shell hurled to and fro by the surf. Blessed be God, at such seasons we are not without an all-sufficient solace, our God is the harbour of weather-beaten sails, the hospice of forlorn pilgrims. Higher than we are is He, His mercy higher than our sins, His love higher than our thoughts. It is pitiful to see men putting their trust in something lower than themselves; but our confidence is fixed upon an exceeding high and glorious Lord. A Rock He is since He changes not, and a high Rock, because the tempests which overwhelm us roll far beneath at His feet; He is not disturbed by them, but rules them at His will. If we get under the shelter of this lofty Rock we may defy the hurricane; all is calm under the lee of that towering cliff. Alas! such is the confusion in which the troubled mind is often cast, that we need piloting to this divine shelter. Hence the prayer of the text. O Lord, our God, by Thy Holy Spirit, teach us the way of faith, lead us into Thy rest. The wind blows us out to sea, the helm answers not to our puny hand; Thou, Thou alone canst steer us over the bar between yon sunken rocks, safe into the fair haven. How dependent we are upon Thee- we need Thee to bring us to Thee. To be wisely directed and steered into safety and peace is Thy gift, and Thine alone. This night be pleased to deal well with Thy servants.