Safe Arms

If you’re scared, I can relate. If you’re worried, me too. And if safe isn’t how you feel, well I get it, but it isn’t true.

There are mornings I wake up hopeful and I can sigh with ‘it was a good day’ by nightfall. But there are mornings I wake up hopeful and tears come unbidden throughout the minutes and hours ahead. God reminds us: ‘be strong and courageous’ – not as an admonishment for being fearful, but because He knows our fears and wants us to remember He’s right here, we are not alone.

I don’t know what you’re dealing with. There are so many hard things this world engulfs us in. And at different times in our lives, one may not seem overwhelming while at another time it came seem like it’s the end of the world. So, just for the next few minutes, let your soul rest here, where there is someone who feels like you do.

My husband, of forty-two years, has a rare form of leukemia – no cure. Just when…we were going to retire and travel…we were going to enjoy our grandchildren…we were going take long walks and eat out a lot. His diagnosis put me in tailspin that led to a bout of depression and physical pain – and just when I was coming out of all that, His diagnosis got worse.

What about you? What were your ‘just whens’ – before all your hard stuff? Did you lose sight of Jesus? Do you feel alone, because no one understands? They can’t, they’re not walking your journey. That doesn’t help, because we need to know someone gets this, feels this.

Someone does. Psalm 27:5a NIV “For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in his dwelling;” ‘Safe’ is tucked into many places in His words to us. “I am writing to all who have been called by God the Father, who loves you and keeps you safe in the care of Jesus Christ.” (Jude 1:1b NIV) “In peace I will lie down and sleep, for You alone, O LORD, will keep me safe.” (Psalm 4:8 NLT)

This is why it’s so very important to have Jesus as Lord and Savior. Because there is no navigating the long nights – the empty bank accounts – the divorce – the hospital stays without Him. We have confidence, based on Jesus’ promises, that this life isn’t all there is. Know that there is someone walking with us. That His promise of a tearless, painless, joyful eternity is true and is ours.

Yes, I’ll still lose my way some days, tears will make me doubt. But how I feel, how you feel, isn’t truth. Truth is our Rescuer has us in His arms and this hard thing can’t touch our forever. Safe, we’re safe, even when we don’t ‘feel’ that way. Love this song…