…because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NIV
News headline:
“2020—the worst year ever!”
Definitely not.
Several years in my past give 2020 a run for the money. With the recent elections
going the way they did, the next few years also promise to be in the
running—but for me, no contest. 2020 was just a wrinkle in time. I’ve already
been through the worst I’ll ever have to go through—because I’ll never again
have to go through anything alone. Even if I lose everything I have here, even
if I lose the entire family God has rooted me in, I’ll still have my Heavenly
Hope. The love of the One who holds me so safe is way bigger and stronger than
anything or anyone else in the whole of His creation.
In the meantime, He’s
got big plans for me, plans to prosper and not to harm. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Nothing can happen to me unless He lets it, and if He lets it, He has a good
reason.
So, no matter how bad
it is or how bad it gets, I have this forever hope:
Jesus loves me, He will stay
Close beside me all the way
He's prepared a Home for me
And someday His face I'll see
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
For the Bible tells me so.
Avi, so many today are chasing the elusive little gods of money, fame and power, running over any and everyone who happens to be in their way. So many are hopeless, looking for a way out that just doesn’t seem to be there. Blind leading the blind, blind chasing the blind, stumbling over the blind, no guide dogs in sight. You are the Light of the World, Avi. You are the God who came to live among us, to heal the blind, the deaf, the lame, the brokenhearted. Help us now, Avi. Heal our nation. Heal our churches. Draw us back to You.
In Your Holy Name, Amen.
