He Abides With You

May 9

God keeps track of you. He is a loving Heavenly Father whose intent is to walk life’s path with you and to empower you to fulfill His perfect plan and achieve His lofty purposes for your life. There are times when you are striving to achieve a worthy goal, to satisfy a deep longing, when you yearn for His mighty arm to move in your behalf.

Deep within yourself, each individual has a profound sense of the Lord’s desire to ‘be there’ for His people; you know the promise, “Turn to Me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of Hosts,” Zachariah 1:3, and you believe innately that the Holy One is always reaching out to you.

If you have some knowledge of the Bible, you realize that perception is reinforced by words such as those spoken by Jesus in Matthew 10:29-31, “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the knowledge of your Father. Even the hairs of your head are numbered so you needn’t be afraid of anything. You are worth much more than sparrows.”

The Almighty who keeps the planets in their orbits and the sun in its place watches over you because He loves you. In His eyes, you are of immense value so He guards you as one does precious things. The manifestation of His love and power in your behalf is evident in the good times—but perhaps most fully at life’s rough places. It is then He demonstrates best His promise to abide with you to the end of the age (Matthew 28:20).