Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. (New Living Translation) - Isaiah 41:10

This is one of those verses that I have turned to so often over the years. All of us have times when we have been afraid. Sometimes it is because we do not know what to do but I think the greatest fear is when we know there is nothing can do. Nothing. We feel like we're in a free-fall, we're going to crash and we're all alone.

We don't like to feel alone. I'm not talking about those times when you feel like seeking solitude out in the woods, next to a lake or curled up with a good book in front of the fire when the house is still. Being alone by choice and feeling alone are two very different things.

God will not abandon us. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, a separation occurred between them and God. What is God's initial response to that separation? He called out to them, "Where are you?" (Genesis 3:9). If we read that passage too quickly, we get this image that God did not know where Adam and Eve were at in the Garden. God is omniscient. Of course He knew where they were physically but something had happened. A barrier called sin had come between them. A barrier that could only be broken by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.

Yet God was calling to them...

God never abandons us. We abandon Him. When we are alone, when we are afraid, we need to remember these words:

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. (New Living Translation) - Isaiah 41:10

We are not alone.

Blessings!

K