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Heaven's Cure for the Overwhelmed Heart "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I." (Psalm 61:2)All of us have known what it is to be overwhelmed with problems. For many folks, their first reaction when such situations arise is to give in, give up, or give out. "Why are all these things happening to me?" is what multitudes woefully cry.We think it strange when many things go wrong in our life when we're trying to do right for the Lord. But the Bible tell us, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:" (I Peter 4:12)Those strange storms often come our way without any or very little warning; and if we're not Scripturally prepared, we become overwhelmed with the devastation they can inflict. They can leave us staggering downward in sorrow and stress, or they can lead us leaning on and looking upward to the Lord.Notice again from that little verse what David said and where he found shelter when those stormy situations bellowed away at his very being, "...when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I." David knew that his God was not just some ordinary rock, but "the rock that is higher than I." He is the ROCK that is exceedingly higher than any other.Those tempests which can overwhelm us, quietly roll beneath this ROCK of ours. He and He alone is our bright and ever shining harbor for our weather-beaten souls.Sadly, those fierce winds of woes have often taken many away from that safe Haven of Rest, and now, now they drift aimlessly around in that sea of despair and eventually sink to the very depths of disappointment as they try to steer themselves to those false shores of man-made hopes.Oh friends, let that never be said of you and me. When our hearts are overwhelmed with the storms of life, may that victorious cry of ours be heard all the way to Heaven and back, "LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I."