Your cry of Help in the name of Jesus has been heard, and it is a blessed thing that you have been taught to cry at all. Sincere suppliants are not content with praying for praying's sake. They desire to really reach the ear and heart of Jehovah, and when prayer is intensified into a cry, then the heart is even more urgent to have audience of the Lord.
Does God care for ravens, and will He not care for you. He hearkens to the cries of the young ravens in their nests when they are hungry and cry unto Him to be fed, and your cry is far more congenial to His ear than the raven's cry for meat. The raven asks only for carrion, but you cry for mercy, for help, for salvation, and He delights to give such things. If you perish praying for mercy through the precious blood, you will be the first that ever perished so. Cry on, soul, cry on. While the child can cry, it lives, and while you can besiege the Throne of Mercy, there is hope for you.
Let us go straight away to Jesus, our Friend and Physician, and let us cry, O God, You are my God, early will I seek You. My soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You. Observe that David did not first pray for deliverance from the dry and thirsty land and then say, There, I will now go and seek God. But no, in the desert itself, he cried, My soul thirsts for You. So in your present trouble, whatever it may be, seek Him there.
There is life for a look at the Crucified One. There is life at this moment for you. For the Covenant of Grace, for the revelation of the Infallible Truth in the Bible, for the Atonement by blood and the immutable love of the ever blessed Three in One, there is a sure foundation for your help. Here is pardon for transgressions past, it matters not how black their cast, and for sins to come here is pardon too, all blotted out at once with one stroke of the sacred pen, obliterated once and for all through faith in Christ alone.
Tried Christians see how God sustains in trouble and how He delivers out of it, and they declare His works openly. Surely there is nothing better for a man of God than to perceive that his smarts and sorrows come from his Father's hand, for then he will say, The will of the Lord be done. Blessed is the man who is wounded by God, for He will afterwards heal him. Blessed is the man who is empty, for God will fill him.
I pray for you now that you may know this help. O Lord, hear this cry and let it come unto You. Look with tender pity upon this seeking soul and come to its deliverance. Show that You have become salvation. Give a look at the Crucified One and give life, that this troubled heart may be charmed with what You have done and may laud and magnify Your name, saying, I will praise You, for You have heard me, and have become my salvation. Grant that help may come not tomorrow but even now, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.