HE PROMISED

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

Matthew 28:20 KJV

Ludie D. Pickett wrote “Never Alone.”  “When in affliction’s valley I tread the road of care, My Savior helps me carry The cross so heavy to bear; Though all around me is darkness, Earthly joys all flown; My Savior whispers His promise, Never to leave me alone!” 

What a precious promise to us from the heart of our loving and faithful Saviour.  When I invited Jesus into my heart on August 14, 1980, He promised me that He would never leave me and He hasn’t, not even for a minute.  It is always safe to trust Jesus because what He says, He will do.

A pastor used this illustration in a sermon about trusting Jesus.  The pastor said “We have more faith in a chair than we do in Jesus.  When we sit down in a chair, we just sit down and don’t worry if the chair is going to hold us”.  How sad it is and how it must hurt Jesus and break His heart when we don’t trust Him.

We know that we can trust Jesus because He has kept all of His promises to us but can Jesus trust us?  If we have told Him that we will serve Him, are we serving Him?  If so, are we serving Him all the time or only when it is convenient for us?  It wasn’t convenient for Jesus to die on the cross for us, but He did.

May God help us to serve Jesus with all our heart, with all of our time and with all our talents.  Will you answer His call?  “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8).

Joanne Lowe

November 6, 2018