Even to your old age and grey hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46 4
My personal belief, for which I have no evidence other than that of my own eyes, is that God seems to like to give himself elbow room to work with people. Although nano second miracles are possible, he seems to lead people slowly and purposefully to the place they need to be. Answers to prayer can seem to be painfully slow and tortuous. Sometimes you look at where you have arrived and although you are not sure how you got there, you see that God has sustained and rescued - in that order.
We may not be able to get what we want immediately, we may need to actually go though that thing we have asked not to go through. But through those times, God has promised to sustain. I think maybe we need to be careful that we take the temporary sustenance that God gives us and not reject it because it isn't the big deal we were looking for. Once, in a period of financial tightness, (dead skint as we say up north) God sent us money to pay for some stuff that we needed. My attitude was one of panic, hold on to the dosh, don't spend it, who knows what is in the future. HOH said - "You are in danger of not using the manna that God has sent for this." He was annoyingly right.
The sustaining and the carrying come first followed by the rescue. Lots of sustaining, lots of rescues. In the small things, in the big things. All our lives. Until we are old and grey.
So needed this. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHOHs are often 'annoyingly right' when one is at one's least 'spiritual' I find. I tell myself this is one of the things about healthy marriages- sometimes it works the other way round [less often in my case, I fear] And manna hidden away tuill tomorrow does have a habit of going rotten!
ReplyDeleteAnd He sustains us even when we are old and grey - I KNOW this [ ok, I admit the grey is sheltering under some L'Oreal Preference, but it IS there. But I am 60 in less than 7 weeks time - so I think I qualify as O&G]
WONDERFUL post -thanks xx
Amen :)
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