The Lord defends those who suffer; He defends them in times of trouble. Those who know the Lord, trust Him because He will not leave those who come to Him. (vs.9-10)
Ever thought you really knew someone and then they disappointed you? Even abandoned you? Ever been that person yourself? We are dust, but He is not. The more we know Him....not just know of Him...the more we can trust Him in everything. It is a matter of walking with Him and taking baby steps. We begin to trust with little things. I call that A. We are scared to death because, really, what if He does not come through? Whew. He does. On to B. The further down the road we go in this walk, the more likely it is that we trust Him. We have learned His ways. We discern His heart. We hear His word. We know our Father. Even when we walk into something that makes no sense to us, we learn to wait to see what He will do. He is a place of safety even in the storm.
But this thing about never leaving us. How can that be? We are accustomed to the evanescence of life. People come and go. David says that we trust Him because He won't leave us. There it is. He is stuck like glue to those who love Him, even as we love Him imperfectly. John the apostle wrote in I John 4: Where God's love is there is no fear because God's perfect love drives out fear.
Afraid God won't come through? Fearful that He won't take care of all the things that keep you awake at night? Then it sounds like you don't understand how much you are loved. How perfectly you are cared for. I know I forget at four a.m. when my eyes are wide open and I am wondering how some thing will all work out. In a study of the New Testament gospels I recently did, it was amazing to me how many times Jesus said: "Don't be afraid." He was always saying that. Why? Because love trusts love.
I know. I know. You have trusted before and you got burned. Me, too. And, I have burned a few others, too. Hope you have not. But God knows our hearts and He is bigger than our hearts. He made them. Our path was created by Him for us. He knows the way. Take His hand. Relax. We are loved.
Want to know how much? So what can we say? If God is for us, who can defeat us? He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all....Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can troubles or problems or suffering or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death?...In all these things we are more than conquerors through God Who showed His love for us. Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor demons, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nor anything else in the world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8)
Feel loved yet? One more promise from the God Who made you. I will never fail ( Hebrew: raphah - relax, cease, desist, become disheartened, let you drop, abandon, be lazy with) you or forsake (Hebrew: azab - let loose of) you. Do not be afraid. He will always be there and He's not letting go.
Ever thought you really knew someone and then they disappointed you? Even abandoned you? Ever been that person yourself? We are dust, but He is not. The more we know Him....not just know of Him...the more we can trust Him in everything. It is a matter of walking with Him and taking baby steps. We begin to trust with little things. I call that A. We are scared to death because, really, what if He does not come through? Whew. He does. On to B. The further down the road we go in this walk, the more likely it is that we trust Him. We have learned His ways. We discern His heart. We hear His word. We know our Father. Even when we walk into something that makes no sense to us, we learn to wait to see what He will do. He is a place of safety even in the storm.
But this thing about never leaving us. How can that be? We are accustomed to the evanescence of life. People come and go. David says that we trust Him because He won't leave us. There it is. He is stuck like glue to those who love Him, even as we love Him imperfectly. John the apostle wrote in I John 4: Where God's love is there is no fear because God's perfect love drives out fear.
Afraid God won't come through? Fearful that He won't take care of all the things that keep you awake at night? Then it sounds like you don't understand how much you are loved. How perfectly you are cared for. I know I forget at four a.m. when my eyes are wide open and I am wondering how some thing will all work out. In a study of the New Testament gospels I recently did, it was amazing to me how many times Jesus said: "Don't be afraid." He was always saying that. Why? Because love trusts love.
I know. I know. You have trusted before and you got burned. Me, too. And, I have burned a few others, too. Hope you have not. But God knows our hearts and He is bigger than our hearts. He made them. Our path was created by Him for us. He knows the way. Take His hand. Relax. We are loved.
Want to know how much? So what can we say? If God is for us, who can defeat us? He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all....Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can troubles or problems or suffering or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death?...In all these things we are more than conquerors through God Who showed His love for us. Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor demons, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nor anything else in the world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8)
Feel loved yet? One more promise from the God Who made you. I will never fail ( Hebrew: raphah - relax, cease, desist, become disheartened, let you drop, abandon, be lazy with) you or forsake (Hebrew: azab - let loose of) you. Do not be afraid. He will always be there and He's not letting go.
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