Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional "A Direct Line" for Sunday, 7 September 2014 - Read Psalm 139:7-12

Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional "A Direct Line" for Sunday, 7 September 2014 - Read Psalm 139:7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
    to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
    If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
    to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
    you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
    At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
    night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
    to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
    If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
    to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
    you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
    At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
    night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
Jesus said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. I know you always hear me.”(John 11:41-42 (CEB))
Shirley, an acquaintance of mine, had been enjoying the solitude of a remote corner of a town park when she suddenly felt faint. Quickly, she reached for her cell phone and dialed; yet she could not get a signal strong enough for the call to be completed. As her vision faded to black, she cried out, “God, help me!”
Shirley woke up shortly afterward in the back of an ambulance on its way to the hospital. At the moment she had lost consciousness, two emergency medical workers had arrived at the same corner of the park to eat their lunch. What some call coincidence, Shirley calls an answer to prayer.
Sometimes we think we need to be in a specific place or to utter the proper prayers for God to hear us. We don’t need a special signal to contact God. No matter where we are, God is within reach. When we call out to God, God listens.
The Author: Monica A. Andermann (New York)
Thought for the Day: God always hears our call.
Prayer: Gracious Father, even the simplest prayer spoken in the remotest place reaches you. Thank you for this sure and wonderful gift. Amen.
Prayer focus: Paramedics
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