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When responding to a cry for help, most seasoned first responders prioritize their response. They go to where they are needed the most and where they are needed immediately. It is critical that the necessary services be brought to those who need them the most in the most expeditious manner possible.
However, this brings up the question of discernment. How do we know whose cry for help is the most important? How do we know who is in the most need at any given time? Even more critical to discernment is the question of those who are simply unable to cry out for help.
What about all the people who simply suffer in silence while unaware that one call for help would bring much needed relief? What of those people who sink to such depths of despair that they end up taking their own lives? We often talk about looking for signs in suicide victims, but very rarely do we interpret the signs as cries for help. People who do not, and cannot, make pleas for help need to be considered as well. And how would a potential suicide victim who is moments away from taking his or her own life stack up in priority against a person who has been mortally wounded, or a homeless person who is destined to die on the street within hours, or the person who has just eaten his or her last meal with no hope of ever being able to afford or find another one?
What are the greatest pleas ever made? And what is their significance to the rest of us? Well, I would like to share with you what I think are the greatest pleas ever made in all human history. I want to share what their importance is to everyone who is alive today or who is yet to be born into this world. And I want to share why I think these pleas are applicable to our lives today and how they can be instrumental in our understanding of our own helplessness and need to cry out to God for his love, mercy, and salvation.
Our unbelief in God and His Holy Word has caused a crisis within our society that is leading us to a very dangerous place, and the only way to stop that is to correct our unbelief. The contradictions in what we practice in our society and what we claim to believe in our Faith grow deeper, wider, and more pronounced each year. These contradictions cannot exist without harming our beliefs and fueling our unbelief. And our unbelief will drive us further and further from the presence of God. And when God is no longer present in our nation, we are indeed in trouble.
What keeps us from crying out to God with pleas for salvation, mercy, grace, and love, is our unbelief. Until we correct our unbelief, the cries for help will never be voiced in our lives, and they will certainly never be answered if they are never made.