I know that I’m not the only person to ever ask this of God. In prayer, out loud, and sometimes even yelling it when no one else could hear me except Him…I hope. Even when God’s Word says in many places that He will never leave you or me, we still feel that He’s silent or absent. The best thing that we can and should remember is that He is always near. If we feel that there is distance between us and God it is because we moved. We have placed the barrier or the wall of fear and uncertainty between us and Him. He has not moved.
God is always true to His Word and His promises because He is God. He doesn’t have our problems or our fears and anxieties although He knows how they affect us and our feelings toward Him. That is the reason He came to live among us so He would be able to truly identify with our weaknesses and our frailties. He is the Creator of everything and He loves you and me. Don’t think that He has the same fears and hangups that we do. He knows about us and our fears but God is above those things.
Seek Him out when you feel weak and afraid because He is close to you and He will strengthen you in all of your trials.
“God will strengthen you” is a phrase from Isaiah 41:10 in the Bible:
In the original Hebrew, the verb translated as “to strengthen” means “to grow and develop; to prevail; to have or show courage; to seize, grasp, and keep hold of”.
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
Because the past is done and thinking about it can’t do anything except cause stress and sometimes regret. Tomorrow isn’t here yet but you can think about it and plan although I wouldn’t plan too far ahead. None of us know for sure if we will be here tonight, so think about where you want to spend eternity more than you think and worry about things you can’t do anything about.
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
I don’t play pranks on my wife but we do occasionally say things that we understand are just loving jabs. Done with love for each other. We’ve been together for 32 years and I pray that others will be committed enough to learn to love your partner and stay together.
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