Cry Out To Jesus. He'll Meet You Wherever You Are!

"Cry Out To Jesus" is a song of hope for hurting people. Like many of the songs on the album "Wherever You Are" by Third Day, it speaks of the pains and sorrows of this life that we all face. Whether we’re Christian or non-Christian we all have friends and loved ones die, we all face problems in our lives caused by our own sin and the sin of others and we all go through times when God brings pain into our lives to test us and make us stronger. But the message of this song and of this album is that there is real hope to be found in crying out to Jesus, that He will meet you wherever you are.

The story is told of a family whose teenage daughter didn’t feel like her parents loved her and she didn’t want to live under the rules of the house so she ran away from home. Her parents searched and searched for her and heard from someone that she had become a prostitute and a drug addict in the red-light district of Los Angeles. The daughter also heard from someone that her parents were looking for her but she was too ashamed of herself to contact them. The parents sold everything they had and with broken hearts they moved into the area to look for their daughter. They printed up posters with their daughter’s picture and hung them on every light pole they could find in the district. The posters simply read:

Wherever you are
Whatever you’ve become
We still love you
Please come home

When the daughter saw the poster those words gave her the hope she needed to contact her parents, cry out to them for help and to finally come home.

While Jesus never promised to keep us from pain, He did promise He will never leave us alone. He simply wants you to recognize His Presence and cry out to Him. Consider the lengths He went to to bring you to Him in the first place:

He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins! But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.
Is 53:2 (NLT)

Father God, Thank you for your love for me. Thank you that you will always be there when I cry out to you.

Lyrics:

To everyone who's lost someone they love
Long before it was their time
You feel like the days you had were not enough
when you said goodbye

And to all of the people with burdens and pains
Keeping you back from your life
You believe that there's nothing and there is no one
Who can make it right

Chorus:
There is hope for the helpless
Rest for the weary
And love for the broken heart
There is grace and forgiveness
Mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are
Cry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus

For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on
They've lost all of their faith in love
And they've done all they can to make it right again
Still it's not enough

For the ones who can't break the addictions and chains
You try to give up but you come back again
Just remember that you're not alone in your shame
And your suffering

Chorus

When you're lonely
And it feels like the whole world is falling on you
You just reach out, you just cry out to Jesus
Cry to Jesus

To the widow who suffers from being alone
Wiping the tears from her eyes
For the children around the world without a home
Say a prayer tonight

Chorus