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[Candice]

Just sharing this morning's devotional from Spurgeon and wondering if we've really ever been forsaken? I mean really? Not like Christ. Never like Him in my opinion. So, if this is the case, then we really know we're fine.

Never Alone

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken. (Isaiah 62:4)

"Forsaken" is a dreary word. It sounds like a knell. It is the record of sharpest sorrows and the prophecy of direst ills. An abyss of misery yawns in that word forsaken. Forsaken by one who pledges his honor! Forsaken by a friend so long tried and trusted! Forsaken by a dear relative! Forsaken by father and mother! Forsaken by all! This is woe indeed, and yet it may be patiently born if the Lord will take us up.

But what must it be to feel forsaken of God? Think of that bitterest of cries, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Have we ever in any degree tasted the wormwood and the gall of "forsaken" in that sense? If so, let us beseech our Lord to save us from any repetition of so unspeakable a sorrow. Oh, that such darkness may never return! Men in malice said of a saint, "God hath forsaken him; persecute and take him." But it was always false. The Lord's loving favor shall compel our cruel foes to eat their own words or, at least, to hold their tongues.

The reverse of all this is that superlative word Hephzibah "the Lord delighteth in thee." This turns weeping into dancing. Let those who dreamed that they were forsaken hear the Lord say, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."

[Charles Miles]

As a young man, I strayed from God and became like the lost sheep.  Probably many young people do this "straying", but now as I look back on those years of my life, I can clearly see that God didn`t "stray" from me.  I thank Him for His lovingkindness and patience with me for those years of wandering......what a waste those years were!  Many, many things chenge throughout our lives, but God`s love for His children is constant, He is there with us, closer than our next breath, waiting for us to come home to His faithfulness and precious love.  Whosoever will is the invitation, and we sometimes forget just how good the relationship with Him is.

  I know nobody on here has ever had to diet, but I have, and those low carb diets work well and fairly fast when compared with some of the others.  But after being on essentially no carbs for a few months, a mouthful of ice cream and brownie is a sensation that is just indescribable...almost.  After wandering away from a relationship with the Father, getting all fouled up in worldly matters, struggling to make sense out of all the things that muddle up our lives....stepping back into the relationship with the Father, experiencing His arms around us, hearing Him whisper into our ear "I love you and I`m so happy you came home", wow!  All the confusion, all the worry, all the hurt that was piled upon us by the world just seems to dissolve into nothing, as the realization falls upon us again....that God loves us.

  No I don`t think a child of God will ever be forsaken, but I do think we can forsake the Father`s relationship.  He is always there but sometimes we chose to ignore Him for one reason or another.

 

I am so happy He understands me and knows me better than I know myself.  I love my God, and I should do so.....but the main thing is that HE loves me!

 

Praise God because He is who He is,

 

Charlie