When my world turns upside down and I feel flipped over with it, there is the tendency for what’s inside to come tumbling out.

Rather than coins, keys, or paper falling from an inside-out pocket, what is stored in the heart becomes exposed instead. When confronted with disappointment and squeezed by distress, what has been stored away over time comes out in full view.

It can make for quite a mess.

But God can work wonders with our messes. I know He has with mine.

Once, after a year of facing mounting anxiety and frustration at a debtor’s continual, sometimes blatant delay, it seemed as if pursuing legal action was my only option.

However, when I asked God for guidance, and allowed for His remedy, the saga was resolved in a matter of days far better than I could have imagined.

In today’s verse, David’s world has turned inside out. Despite his men’s loyalty in normal times, pressure caused them to consider his murder.

Although David, too, was “greatly distressed,” he vented differently. Unwilling to right wrongs his way, he “strengthened himself in the Lord his God.”

Ultimately, God delivered David. He is ready and willing to do the same for us today.