Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.
Psalm 27: 9-10
Thought for Today: Lewis Smedes writes in “A Chorus of Witnesses”: "Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they promised once to see it through. They stick to lost causes. They hold on to a love grown cold. They stay with people who have become pains in the neck. They still dare to make promises and care enough to keep the promises they make. I want to say to you that if you have a ship you will not desert, if you have people you will not forsake, if you have causes you will not abandon, then you are like God. What a marvelous thing a promise is! When a person makes a promise, she reaches out into an unpredictable future and makes one thing predictable: she will be there even when being there costs her more than she wants to pay. When a person makes a promise, he stretches himself out into circumstances that no one can control and controls at least one thing: he will be there no matter what the circumstances turn out to be. With one simple word of promise, a person creates an island of certainty in a sea of uncertainty. "
Are you feeling forsaken today? Perhaps you feel the sting of rejection or the pain of a lost relationship. We have a great promise from our God: "I will never leave you or forsake you." (Joshua 1:5) People make promises and often do not follow through. We can be assured that all of God's promises to us are true, we can bank on that. Can you rest in the assurance that, if you have received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are His precious child, never to be left on your own or abandoned? We don't serve a God who abandons, but one who desires our complete abandon.
