We are not alone

The economy, tsunami’s, earthquakes, poverty, fear, divorce, sickness, anger, hurt, rejection: a short list of things that can overwhelm my mind, filling my thoughts to the brim of my cup and overflowing into every area. I look around at the chaos and wonder, “What then should I do?” I hear a still small voice say, “Come to Me.”

He loves us - He’s been calling you and me to Him
since the day He knit us together in our mother’s wombs

(Psalm 139:13).

"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the
one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”

John 3:18 (The Message)

Think you’ve messed up too much for God to have any interest in you? Welcome to the club, we have all sinned and are unable to reach God by our own goodness. (Romans 3:23). Good news! If you believe in, trust in, and cling to God then the following scripture is true for you.

Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us

from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 8:31-39 (NLT)

Here are two beautiful songs that remind us that we are not the only ones who need to come out of hiding, to let go of anything we are holding onto, and that He is waiting for us with open arms.

Rest by Nevertheless from their album In the Making (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx0VFitH1WY&feature=related
Something Classic - “Just As I Am” lyrics by Charlotte Elliott (1835)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGBMv42dJY&feature=related

God has not abandoned us nor left us

(2 Corinthians 4:8-10).

If we cry out to Him in our despair, He will rescue us

(Psalm 142).

Written by Mary M. Wilkins