The God Who Carries You
Isaiah 46:3,4 "Family of Jacob, listen to me! You who are left from the family of Israel, listen! I have carried you since you left your mother’s womb. I carried you when you were born, and I will still be carrying you when you are old. Your hair will turn grey, and I will still carry you. I made you, and I will carry you to safety.”
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake the feeling that you’re not good enough. We’re meant to be capable and self-reliant, right? We’re meant to succeed, right?
As someone who, like many, was programmed from an early age to succeed, that’s something I’ve certainly struggled with along the way. And the more driven, the more success-oriented you are, the harder you fall when you fail.
Sure, we know the theory. We learn life’s important lessons by our mistakes. It’s how you grow, mature, round out. Great! But that doesn’t help when you’ve fallen flat on your face; when people, it seems, are staring down their noses and judging you.
Friend, this is something that we need to unlearn. Because when your heart is set on God, the truth is this: no matter what befalls you, be it as a consequence of your own stupidity or something completely outside your control, He will carry you through it.
This is what He said to His people Israel, who’d made so many mistakes, who’d turned their backs on Him and failed Him so many times.
Isaiah 46:3,4 “Family of Jacob, listen to me! You who are left from the family of Israel, listen! I have carried you since you left your mother’s womb. I carried you when you were born, and I will still be carrying you when you are old. Your hair will turn grey, and I will still carry you. I made you, and I will carry you to safety.”
Listen: you will make more mistakes.
Listen: God will carry you through to safety, right into your old age.
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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