Secure and safe in God’s care…………………
Each new day brings some new challenge and often many things we just have never experienced before.
It might be tough news from the specialist on the tests you have had. Or it might be your company has decided to close down and you have no job and you have worked so hard to get to where you are. Sometimes it can just be those things you used to be able to deal with before but now have somehow become difficult and you are struggling to do the ‘ordinary’.
Life in a fallen world will never be easy but thank God for His amazing grace.
In one of my favourite passages in the Bible, Psalm 73 the psalmist is experiencing much of what we have discussed. He is struggling, he is starting to lose hope and wondering just whether he is going to make it. It appears that everywhere else he looks everyone is getting by, not struggling but getting through – at least so it appears. How often we do NOT see that the reality of life in other peoples struggles and living. Psa 73:16 When I thought [how] to understand this, It [was] too painful for me–
But God’s Word gives us a blessed place to go when things are overwhelming us, when news hit us hard, when there seems no way through. Psa 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God…..you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel,
leading me to a glorious destiny. 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.
If you today or tonight as you read this blog are struggling and the water is lapping under your chin in the struggles of life then find a quiet place and in Jesus name come into the very presence of God. For there you will find….God’s grace and comfort and you will be secure in His care…always. Hbr 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
There are no more powerful arms than those of our Heavenly Father – may you rest in them today and may you be safe in them tonight.