“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. So we say with confidence,
“the Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid what can man do to me?” Hebrews 13:5,6
Do you sometimes feel all alone in the world? Like you’ve been forsaken by the persons who you expected would love you, protect you, and support you? Feeling abandoned is a scary thing.
We will all have these feelings of being disappointed in people. There are certain securities that only Jesus can give us personally and through his Word.
Sometimes this act of abandonment happened years ago, but the feeling is still there. It’s a flash back from an earlier experience that happened in your childhood. In my case it dates back to when I was about five years old and found myself all alone in a terrible air raid. (World War II had come to our town) The house was shaking, smoke and dust swirled outside, pieces of lumbar flew past the window. And the noise was deafening. My mother had taken the younger two children to the cellar, but for whatever reason, I had not followed her. I was alone in a world gone crazy.
Now when these feelings of abandonment come to me—sometimes out of the blue—I remind myself of the truth. Yes, it did happen but it doesn’t change my security now. As a Christian I’m never truly abandoned.
God Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake you, nor let you down, I will not relax my hold on you! Assuredly not! (Hebrews 13: 5,6 Amplified.)
When feelings of insecurity come, counter them with the truth of God’s word like the above: God says, ”I will not forsake you, nor let you down, I will not relax my hold on you! Assuredly not! That’s the truth and I can count on it.
By Helen Grace Lescheid
Used by Permission
FURTHER READING
• Jesus Requires Total Abandonment
• Beautiful, Broken Jar of Clay
• Elma’s Story – Nothing Left To Give – Feeling Alone in a Marriage
