Don't Forget It!

Have you ever played the "what-if" game with a child: what-if there was no gravity ... what-if cats had wings ... on and on it goes. The acceptance of God as omniscient (all-knowing) and sovereign (all-mighty) can be tough especially when we allow our minds to wonder ... what-if. I've often found myself in circumstances of difficulty and the temptation to to second-guess God. We have this great truth in Isaiah 44:21(NASB) - "Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant, O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me." Don't miss these precious words: "you will not be forgotten by Me." You see, that hard situation or circumstance, that troubling relationship, that anxious moment, that looming mountain of trouble ahead - God knows about it and He will not forget you! Frances de Sales wrote, "Make friends with your trials as though you were always to live together." Oh, how quickly we want to pray ourselves out of difficulty instead of praying for acceptance of them and strength to walk through them as God refines us, grows us and presses us even closer to Him n tenderness and love. He never forgets us nor abandons us: "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10, NASB). Life never stops being hard - neither does God stop being who He is ... altogether trustworthy and faithful. He will never forget you ... don't forget it!