HOME: THE DAY I UNDERSTOOD GOD WOULD NEVER LEAVE

Do you realize that if you've spent all day with God on Sunday, He isn't tired of your voice on Monday?

If we've come to Him time and again over a burden on our hearts, He will never say 'Enough! Go tell someone else, I'm tired of hearing it."

If we have sunk so low in our depression or despair He will never say "I just need a break from your negativity for awhile."

You and I, my friend, can know a love that will never leave. A love that never needs time away.

Because of my travels as a speaker, requiring me to be on the road or on a plane many weekends a year, and Hugh's job as a pastor, requiring him to be home shepherding the flock, it isn't true or realistic to say that my husband and I have never been apart. There are many days when he has had his space. But there has never been a day that he has insisted upon it. True, there have been times when he would've rather had his space than have to deal me regarding certain issues, but there has never been a day when I've felt driven away or that I had to leave in order for him to love me better.

Because of past hurts in my life, I've had to first trust in God's promise to never leave me. By finding my security in Him and His words, I am better able to trust in my husband's promise to never leave, as well as his devotion to God first, and then to me as his wife. It is our common love and trust in God first, that holds us together today.

If you've experienced hurt or betrayal in your life that has prevented you from trusting someone else, I encourage you to take a closer look at the God of the Scriptures who promises in His Word that He will never leave you or forsake you. Listen to the Psalmist's words (and my paraphrase in parentheses) of this love that will never leave - or even let you out of His sight:

"If I go up to the heavens (or if I'm top of the world and don't really need you, God), you are there; if I make my bed in the depths (or if I sink so low that no one else wants to be around me anymore), you are there.

"If I rise on the wings of the dawn, (or, if I pack up and run to a place where no one else can find me), if I settle on the far side of the sea (if I go into my cave and wall myself off so no one can hurt me anymore), even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

"If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' (certainly, the things I've done will make God want to have nothing to do with me), even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you" (Psalm 139:7-12).

That is passionate, pursuing love. And that is a love that you and I can experience every day of our lives, in a relationship with Christ - the only One who can truly be ever-present in our lives.

Will you begin to let Him be your Lover who never leaves?

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