Isaiah 46: 3-4 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.”
So often when we feel like we are teetering on the edge of a cliff, we forget that - God, He has got a grip on us like none other! And it's not like He's just getting the hang of it.... He has been carrying us, safely ensconing us in His loving arms from before even we were conceived. Even before your parents decided pink or blue, and painted the room with soothing pastels, God chose you for Himself and carefully wove every particle of your being together to create what He already had begun bearing in His mind. We were conceived in His mind first before we were even a tiny embryo feeding off our mother's sustenance from inside the womb and He already has a record of how every season of our lives is going to turn out (Psalm 139:15-16 “My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them” ).
He has promised us that He is the same God who first carried us, Who will also carry us until the very end. He prepared us, not so He could drop us when we are being too difficult to handle, but to bear us up in Him. He does not walk away when we are stubborn, He does not leave us stranded where we are, rather there is nothing we can do that can make Him give us up. It has always been us who have given up on God. It's been us who have denied Him when it was inconvenient for us, but never Him. So we have no reason to fret or freak out, because He is always with us, upholding us in His righteous right hand (Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”).
When we make the resources and references we have carry us and not God who is the Source of all things, we will feel suspended of all support when the resources dry out or when there have been bitter experiences with flaky people and untrustworthy cords that frayed at the slightest hint of a flame. (Job 6:13 “Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?”) Unless we recognise that it's God's hands that keep holding us in place, where ever we are, and not any human or man made works or the works produced thereof, we are constantly in danger of feeling let down.
Let us rest in the knowledge that God is our potter and we are the clay in His hands, and He has never once taken His hands off of us.
God bless!
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