Have you ever had days when you simply could not win? One fellow was driving home from work one evening and heard a radio announcer suggest to his listeners that they surprise their partners when they got home.
"When you arrive for dinner," he said, "instead of growling something like 'When will dinner be ready?' why not surprise your wife with a little gift?"
The man thought that sounded like a good idea, so he stopped along the way for a bouquet of flo
wers and a box of chocolates.
Instead of driving into the garage, he went up to the front door and rang the bell. His wife opened the door, saw him standing there with a radiant smile, holding out his gifts to her and declared crankily to him: "Well if that doesn't beat it all! Listen, buster, the baby has colic. The washing machine is broken again. Junior got into a fight at school today and got expelled. I've been at my wit's end all day. Now, as I might have expected, you make my day perfect by coming home drunk!"
Sooner or later we will arrive at Wits' End. We come to the place where we are really at the end of our tether and we do not know which way to turn.
In Psalm 107 v23-32 there is a vivid and true-to-life description of a storm at sea.
God sent the storm and it was a terrific one. The sailors were at their wits' end and because of this they turned to the Lord in prayer, and they cried out to Him to help them. God heard and answered their prayers and stilled the storm and brought them to their desired haven.
How often the Lord allows us to come to the end of our tether, to our wits' end, so that in our dilemma and despair we may really turn to Him.
Whatever your problem may be, whatever your difficulty or burden may be, do what those sailors did. Commit to the Lord yourself and all that troubles you and trust Him to see you through.
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