I was halfway down the mountain and didn’t know what to do next. I was cold, tired and scared. And I was alone.
It was my first-ever ski trip, a church youth group trip during my sophomore year of high school. After a few runs down the bunny slopes, our college-aged chaperone took us up to the top of the mountain for our first real run. She paired up the new skiers with those who had experience, and she assigned me to the guy who had dumped me just weeks before. Perfect.
As you can imagine, he wasn’t too interested in offering words of encouragement as he skied slowly down the mountain beside me. It took him about five minutes to decide he was out of there, and off he went. I was on my own, forced to figure out how to get down all by myself.
We’re often tempted to view our grown-up trials in the same way. We want to believe God is with us. But sometimes it feels like we’re taking so long to work through our issues that we wonder if God will get bored and move on. Or we’re in the throes of suffering and can’t imagine why God hasn’t rescued us from our circumstances. We feel abandoned and alone.
But God isn’t like the 16-year-old boy who left me on the ski run.
Hebrews 13:5: {God} will never leave you nor forsake you.
Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, the Lord is by your side. In Him, you have everything you need to face your struggles. His love for you will never waver, and His faithfulness will never come to an end. He will finish the good work He began in you.
No matter what you face this week, God will never leave you.
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