I hope you celebrated God's goodness in worship through the weekend! It's Monday and we really need some encouragement from God to get motivated for a good week ahead. Today I'm reading Isaiah 46. It's just 13 verses so let's read the whole thing. By the way, just so you know, Bel and Nebo were false gods of Babylon.
This is what I am needing to hear most today:
"Listen to me, . . . you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." (v. 3-4)
Sometimes I reflect on my life, thinking of things I did and challenges I went through, and I know that it was God who saw me through it all. I love this picture of God holding me, carrying me. I'd like to think I'm an adult and I can walk on my own, but no, it's been God carrying me along. My life could have gone such a different direction. I could have been ruined by my mistakes. I could have given up through the pain of watching my precious wife suffer through death by cancer. The reason I wasn't and didn't is that God had me in his arms and wouldn't put me down. He held me close to his heart and assured me that it would be alright.
As I look ahead to the future--the rest of this Monday, the week ahead, the next five years and beyond I will cling to this promise that God will still be carrying me, providing all that I need. Like a little boy in his Father's arms, I don't have to worry about a thing. Thank you, Father, for this tender image of your love for me. I'm so glad that your arms never get tired.
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Wow this one is powerful. I to imagine God carrying me through my deepest sorrows when I cannot even stand on my own. When I was young I thought there was no hope and I tried to take my life several times. Luckily I was unsuccessful. You know what happened? I had someone come and apply for a job with the company I worked for. I hired a wonderful woman who knew She began telling me about God and Jesus. She didn't care what I had done in my life, she opened her heart and her life to me. She brought me to church and she kept telling me about Jesus. If I had a night of partying the next day I would tell her about it and she would tell me about Jesus. I know I know I know that God put Eve in my life because He was not done with me. He did not want me to die, He had bigger and better plans for me. Even in my pit of self destruction God was carrying me....
ReplyDeleteThank you dearest Lord for placing people in my life to lead me to the path to find you. Thank you for now carrying me through my times of trials and tribulations.Ilove you Jesus and I thank you for never never never giving up on me even though I gave up on myself many times. Help me to live for you and to be a reflection of you at all times.
What a powerful testimony! It's just like God to intentionally keep us from self destruction....because he has other plans for us!! YAY God!
ReplyDelete"Remember the things I have done in the past. For I alone am God! I am God, and there is none like me. Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish". (v. 9-10)
Lord, I see how your hand has held me through so many tough times....and good times. There have been times when I have been so helpless and not sure how to take another step forward. It is in those times that I can literally feel you pick me up and carry me.
There have also been the good times when I feel very undeserving of your grace and realize that, only by your hand, could life be so amazing.
You know your plans, you have the future in your hands Lord. I will allow you to carry me through just as you have throughout my entire life. There is nothing that I will not be able to endure because you will uphold me.....it's your promise to me!
Michele
And I will fear no evil.
ReplyDeleteFor my God is with me.
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?
Oh no. You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no. You never let go
Lord. You never let go of me.
(great promise-great song)
your friend, Terry
Awesome thoughts, my friends! I love hearing from you!
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