As you prepare for bed tonight, consider what is troubling you the most at this point in your life. What (or whom) have you been calling on to help you with this problem?

How easy it is, in moments of panic, to call on everything we can think of (except the Lord) to relieve an uncomfortable situation. Maybe we call on the refrigerator, an aspirin or a coke. Anything to give us relief.

Or there are other alternatives, too...like complaining, venting our feelings on others, sleeping to escape, or just giving up.

Yet all these temporary means of relieving discomfort do little to help us cope any better the next time. Only the Lord can do that. That is why He urgently tells us over and over again to call on him. He wants us to get into the habit of letting Him come to our rescue, day and night. He promises us, "He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him...the LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth" (Psalms 91:15; 145:18, NIV).

Heavenly Father, I thank You for the desire I have to start a new habit tonight; the habit of calling on You before I turn to anything else. I know You have right things in store for me, and that I will discover a new dimension of Your salvation each time I obediently call and trust in Your name. In Jesus' Name, Amen.