In Psalms, chapter one hundred and seven, verse six, the psalmist uses this phrase four times and states that God “delivered them out of their distresses,” as in verses six, thirteen, nineteen, and twenty-eight. God frequently brings His children to a place where their self-sufficiency fails, and no human being can help, that they might cry out to Him in humble and childlike faith.
When we were kids, we would cry for our parents or guardians to help us because we did not know how to cope with a situation that arose before us. Psalms one hundred and seven, verses four through five, the people of God encountered some physical difficulties. “They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.” They cried unto the Lord, and God “delivered them out of their distresses.”
Therefore, he brought down their heart with labor; they fell, and there was none to help, as in verse thirteen, They cried unto the Lord, and God “delivered them out of their distresses.” In the verses before nineteen, “Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat, and they draw near unto the gates of death. They cried unto the Lord, and God “delivered them out of their distresses. The last cry came from verse twenty-eight, “
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.” They cried unto the Lord, and God “delivered them out of their distresses.
God knows and sees His people’s hearts. He understands who is reaching out to Him from the inside. Some are dependent on the Lord, while others depend upon themselves and fail to seek Almighty God.