Mighty to Save?

So we all know the popular worship song "Mighty to Save," and its one of my favorites. But over the summer God really laid something on my heart. I was sitting in my room in the staff house at Caswell, it was a sunday afternoon, I had led worship at the pier that morning, and I sang this song. And if you dont know already, Mighty to Save is based on a scripture passage out of Zephaniah 3:17 which says:

"The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."

But what blows my mind, is just the context of that scripture. Zephaniah is only 3 chapters long, but for the majority of those 3 chapters, the prophet Zephaniah is basically telling the people of Judah (God's chosen people), that God is ticked and that He is going to send down His wrath upon them and all this bad stuff will happen to them because of what they have done. But finally there is a glimmer of hope at the end of chapter 3. Finally God is like "Look, despite all this, I am going to restore all of you, because I love you and you are my people." And then comes the statement from Zeph: "The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save."

So anyways, as I was sitting on my bed just reflecting on that, God put a little song on my heart. Well not so much a song, but more of a tag line or a hook. So I just grabed my guitar and started playing that song and then singing "Your mighty to save, come and rescue me.." And I just sang that over and over and over. Because how many times in our lives do we get ourselves into all this crap and we need to be rescued from it. We know that God can rescue us from it, but we just cant seem to let go, or maybe we just feel that we are already in too deep for God to save us.

I love the Psalms and how much they express so many different emotions and situations where despite what is going on, they were still able to worship God. I was reading Psalm 91 today and something caught my eye. In it, and the psalms following it, it talks about how great and Mighty God is. But here is what Psalm 91 says:

1 Those who live in the shelter of the Most High
will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 This I declare about the Lord:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
he is my God, and I trust him.
3 For he will rescue you from every trap
and protect you from deadly disease.
4 He will cover you with his feathers.
He will shelter you with his wings.
His faithful promises are your armor and protection

and then it goes on to say:

14 The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.
15 When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.
16 I will reward them with a long life
and give them my salvation.”

God can and will rescue us, because He promised that to us; He is mighty to save! I mean its written all over scripture and in history. But what it all comes down to is this: Do YOU believe that God is mighty to save? Can you honestly say that you believe that in your life right now. No matter what your going through right now, can you say that God is faithful and that God is mighty to save? I dont say all this to say that God will keep us from harm and no bad things will happen to us. No, because he didnt even give that promise to His own Son. Jesus still bore our sins and our shame on that cross. Because it was God's will. But God will give us the strength to patiently endure whatever we are going through and God has promised to rescue us.

God, Your mighty to save, come and rescue me....