There is something glorious about the tender watch-care of the Lord our God. He is ever watchful, vigilant, and personal as He oversees His struggling child. He draws near and speaks life into our troubled hearts.
A heart consumed with fear.
A heart overwhelmed by hopelessness.
A heart broken through betrayal and rejection.
We Are Always on God’s Mind, He Speaks Life to Us When we Struggle
His child is always on His mind, you and I are always within His line of vision as His eyes roam throughout the earth seeking the one who loves Him and needs to be encouraged. Our names are engraved on His hands near puncture wounds where the blood trickled down, evidence of perfect love.
We are not alone in our difficult, broken places. And if we will only awaken the eyes of our hearts to see and hear, we will discover the God of the Universe is near. He makes Himself known, He speaks life into our troubled hearts.
We are under the tender watch-care of the Great I AM. “I Am whatever you need Me to be,” the Lord tells us. “Don’t be afraid. I go with you wherever you go.”
The Lord pursued Hagar when she was exiled into the wilderness by Sarah. I know this because the Scripture tells us the Angel of the Lord found her in her desolate place.
Hagar saw an outcast falsely accused. God saw her brokenness and intervened, speaking life into her troubled heart.
The Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush, in the very place Moses had resigned himself to — tending sheep in the desert for forty years after fleeing Pharaoh’s wrath.
The Angel of the Lord came down because He had heard the cries of His people being held captive by the Egyptians. He came to make it clear to Moses that he was the chosen one to deliver the people of God. Into Moses’s doubt and insecurities, God spoke confidence and reassurance — He spoke life into his troubled heart.
Moses saw a failure. God saw a leader.
God Pursues His Children and Speaks Life Into Their Overwhelm
Gideon was hiding in a winepress threshing wheat when the Angel of the Lord found him and sat down to speak with Gideon. God had a plan of deliverance for His people once again, and Gideon, in his youth and simplicity, was the chosen one. Even though Gideon had grown despondent and afraid because of the relentless assaults of the Midianites, the Angel of the Lord called Gideon “a mighty man of valor,” as He spoke life into this frightened young man.
Gideon saw a coward. God saw a warrior.
Fast forward to the woman at the well in John 4. She was a Samaritan woman ostracized by her community because of her lifestyle. The only time she could gather water at the community well was at noon, the hottest time of day, because the other women came early in the morning or in the cool of evening.
Jesus knew she would be there. Why else would He tell His disciples he had to go to Samaria on their travels to Galilee? A Jew, especially a rabbi, would go out of his way to avoid Samaria because it was a land of pagans and would make him unclean. But Jesus had to go. He knew the woman was mocked and the target of gossip in her community. He knew she would be there and would need to learn of His Living Water where she would thirst no more. He spoke life into her troubled heart.
The woman saw isolation and failure. Jesus saw an evangelist.
Oh, what manner of love is this?
Our God comes down from heaven, right into the middle of our circumstances, and makes Himself known. As we abide in Him, He meets us where we are, He speaks life into our troubled hearts … into our broken places.
But are the eyes of our hearts open so that we might see and know and understand? Do we anticipate the presence of the One who promised to never leave us and to be near in our brokenness? Do we listen for His delicate whispers that stir deep within our spirit?
God Speaks Life Into Our Troubled Hearts and Our Lives Are Forever Changed
God’s tender watch-care is real, it is tangible in our most difficult places. When we take hold of the truth that Almighty God, Maker of Heaven and Earth knows our every need, and our every concern, and pursues us with His love, our lives are forever changed.
In that moment, we will know that we know we are never alone.
Selah
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Sweet blessings to you,
