YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. (Isaias 40,1)

If you are in pain tonight, in the midst of a dark and seemingly relentless trial, persecuted, calumniated, lied to or about, in a hospital bed or facing a divorce, have been abandoned or are in deep grief over some loss, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

If your heart is breaking because of rejection, abuse, or because of personal guilt, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

If you are facing Christmas with a burden of seemingly hopeless debt, unable to put food on the table, let alone presents under the tree, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Your Creator Who formed you in the womb of your mother, Who fully intended for you to be here, Who watches over you with unfathomable tenderness and fatherly pity, whispers to you even now: "you are mine."

Simply pray in childlike simplicity, "I am Yours Lord, and yours I wish to be."

Then just be quiet and wait upon your loving Redeemer. He will never leave you nor abandon you. He is nearer to you than your own breath.

Originally posted 13 December 2019