“I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there
your hand will guide me, and your
strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light
around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you
the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.”
(Psalm 139:7-12, NLT)
We struggle on days of discouragement.
Hours go by, as our spirits flounder and sink lower and lower. The causes of the discouragement vary for any
of us; from the trivial to the devastating. What can be dismissed as
circumstance by one person can be daunting to another person. The temporary gray cloud of some unsettling
event over one person can seem like an ink black hopeless catastrophe to the next. Every one of us can feel alone and isolated. Every one of us can be brought down by
something, someone or some circumstance or event. We can feel discouraged even when surrounded
by those who love us as if we were all alone deserted and abandoned. Discouragement can come from countless pressures
and sources, factual or imagined as we struggle to cope with the past, present
or the future.
On any day when discouragement looms over us and no matter how isolated
and alone we may feel, God is with us. His promise is to never abandon us, we
can trust in His guaranteed presence being wherever we are. There is no place we can visit, linger or
dwell, that He is not there. It is not
that He comes to those places, but rather, He is there. We cannot travel to a place where He is not
present as He is always with us. Even
more miraculous is what He brings to every place of discouragement. He brings true hope which shines as the most
brilliant of lights in the darkest of places.
There is no height or depth that we can travel where God is not there to
care for us and encourage us by His presence.
We can abandon our discouragement to our God, for His presence is ever
with us, no matter what we face or where we are. His presence is a rock solid
place of encouragement on any day of discouragement.
Suggested Reading … Psalm 139
Suggested Reading … Psalm 139
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