- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min read
“God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart.
Examine me through and through;
find out everything that may be hidden within me.
Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares.
See if there is any path of pain I’m walking on,
and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting way—
the path that brings me back to you.”
I am never alone. That is one of the key takeaways that give me consolation about all things I encounter in life. When Christ was preparing to leave the disciples and fulfill the reconciliation of God and humanity, Christ told the disciples, “Take careful notice: an hour is coming, and has arrived, when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, leaving Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me” (John 16:32 AMP). Just as God the Father was with God the Son, I can be assured that I am not alone despite and in spite of how I feel.
In this world of feelings where folks make decisions based upon their situations and their emotions, I can have the assurance that my feelings are temporary, my situation is temporary, my distress is temporary, my pain is temporary, BUT my God is permanent. God is always there even when I feel that God has left me. I have to learn that in a lot of situations in life, my feelings are not doing me any service. My feelings are often being used in service of other powers that are attempting to turn me astray and lead me to doubt the promise of God to be with me.
I need to let God examine and test those things that make me feel in any way that I am alone. I need to return from those feelings that are swaying my judgment and asking me to choose whether I trust in the immutability of what God has promised. And there are lots of distractions out there in the world that have adapted and changed over the years to try and draw my attention off God and onto my feelings. BUT the distractions of the world may change, my commitment to God may change, my emotions and situations may change, however, God does not change. And God’s promise to never leave me alone does not change.
I remind folks, mainly my children, that their relationship with God is between them and God. And I always add, “I won’t be standing there with you when you have to make an account with God. It will only be God and you.” And I take comfort in that fact that even when I make it to judgment I will not be alone then because God will be there with me at that time also. Maybe that makes some folks afraid. Maybe that makes some folks worried. BUT it shouldn’t. I feel relieved to know that when I have to make an account of my life, God will be there with me too. I am never alone. You are never alone. God isn’t looking down on you from a cloud, from Heaven, from the other side of a door, God is always right there with you and me. God’s presence is there whether I feel like it or not.
Peace to your home. Bless your being. The reign of God is now. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.