Distress as a Divine Invitation to Prayer

"In my distress I cried unto the LORD." Mark the wondrous advantage of trouble—that it makes us call upon God. And mark again the wondrous readiness of mercy, that when we call, He heareth us. Trouble is often the ladder by which we climb toward the throne of grace. A man in comfort may forget his Maker; but a man in distress remembers that there is One who sits above all circumstances, one who bends His ear to the cry of the afflicted.…