And God Remains…
Psalm 73:25-26 (New Living Translation)
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. 26 My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart;
he is mine forever.
Recently on Facebook, a young lady wrote that no one cared for her and that no one called her and that she was dealing all by herself. She had taken the heck with the world approach, because of her frustration. As I read her post you could feel her pain and her frustration. I felt bad, for her, but I also was reminded of being in that same place feeling all alone as if no one cared, or at least feeling as if the people that matter most in my eyes did not care for me, or at least not as much as I cared for them. When we are in a place like this it is a place of torment and hindrance. Being in this frame of mind can take us from understanding that no matter what we are never alone, because there is always one, who loves, cares and watches over us, and He never leaves us or forsakes us.
Today as I sat and thought of some of the emotional places that I had been and all the places that God had seen me through, it hit me like a ton of bricks that during the course of my life, people had meant to harm me, hurt me, and leave me feeling awful about myself, doubting the truth and essence of God’s creation in me, but even there God was present. When I felt at my lowest and when I felt as if I was all alone, God was still there and He had me. When I was sick, and my heart hurt because of the physical discomfort, God was there and He gave me something that no one else could, He gave me the courage to live and the strength to push passed the pain and the confusion that had entered my mind to whether I would live or die, overcome or be imprisoned by what ailed me in those days. If I had been stripped of all people and things, as I have been on many of occasions, I have learned that God remains. God is the one constant that people, and their tactics, methods, plots, plans, attitudes, backbiting and schemes can never take from you. God is the constant that when sickness hits if we are hid in him, He is there to hold our hands, reassure us and let us know it is all going to be okay. I have come to understand that people often think they are doing us a disservice by deleting us off their Facebook, taking us out of their phone, or removing us from their circle, but the one lesson I have learned is that their disservice is usually the best service they can give us and it is usually when God is working in our best interest. By God allowing them to get rid of us, was really God removing them, so that we could have more of Him and less of their influence in our lives.
In times when we look around and we do not see anyone, realize God is there. The Bible says in Psalms 27:10 “Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.” No matter who leaves, who deletes, who removes, who, walks away, who loves you and who doesn’t, God still remains. He was there at our beginning and He will see us through this journey and be there to receive us at the end. When we desire Him more than anything He becomes our strength, our focus, our health, our joy, our friend, and He is even our family when they refuse to be present. If we can remember it is not the circle that we find ourselves in, but the hands that we find ourselves in that matter most, we will be okay. “See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem’s walls in ruins.” (Isaiah 49:16).
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