God has promised to never leave us or forsake us and He never does!
“Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]” (Hebrews 13:5 AMP)
Although we may not feel that He is there working things together for us, He never stops working. Usually when we are in the pit of despair, that is when He is working the most. We are so desperate and caught up in our pain, that we cannot see what He is doing. He always provides people just at the time you need something tangible to keep you going. They either have an encouraging word for you or do something that gives you hope to keep pressing on.
I so witnessed this in my own life as God kept bringing me people all along the way to help me make it through another day. When you are so desperate, the only focus you need to have is to make it through just ONE day! Things can change so fast for you in the matter of just ONE day
Looking at the overall picture of your circumstance, can get you too overwhelmed and that is when we really get into deep trouble.
How do I know these things? I have lived it and I have seen it come into play in someone else’s life just in the past three months. When I look back over my life, I can see how He was orchestrating
people to help me before my despair ever took place. Let me give you an example:
I grew up in a small rural area in eastern Canada and when I say small, I mean small. I left there after high school, went to college, worked away for a few years, returned and got married. As everyone knows, things change, people change and when I moved back there of course everything had changed. I did not seem to fit in as anyone I knew was having babies and I was not interested in that yet. Well, you do change your mind and I got pregnant after a couple years of marriage. There was a lady that I had heard of for many years but had never met living in this small community. She and her husband had moved there from another province and had decided to raise their family there. I am about maybe three months pregnant or so when my Mom meets this lady at the mailbox one day. She tells my Mom about the Lamaze classes that she had taken as she is pregnant as well. She offered to teach me if I was interested as I had missed the classes.
Now, this is God ordained as I have never seen this woman and she had never seen me! I met her and we became fast friends. She already had two small children and her baby was born in Nov. where our baby was born in April.
My husband passed away suddenly when our baby was 20 days old, needless to say, I became quite a basket case! I was so overwhelmed with the responsibility of a new baby and no husband, that I was grasping at any lifeline that God could throw me. This precious lady was one of them! As she was a nurse by profession, she could understand the grieving process where most people in this small place did not seem to. She was more than helpful and I know that I know, God provided her for me to help me make it through! That is only one of the things He did for me in such a desperate time in my life.
One of the young pastors in the church we attend, lost their little baby 13 months suddenly from an accident. These dear young couple have two other children so they have more than enough on their plate. He stood up on Sunday and said the exact same thing about people either saying or doing something to encourage them along. I was just sitting and smiling and thinking, “Yep, that is what He does.”
“Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! 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 49:15, 16 NLT)
What an awesome thought that is, to think, our name is written on the palms of His hands!
How God Loves Us 