Fear not, I am with you; be not dismayed; I am your God. I will strengthen you, and help you, and uphold you with my right hand of justice.
Yes, all shall be put to shame and disgrace who vent their anger against you; Those shall perish and come to nought who offer resistance. You shall seek out, but shall not find, those who strive against you; They shall be as nothing at all who do battle against you.
For I am the Lord, your God, who grasp your right hand; It is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you." Fear not, O worm Jacob, O maggot Israel; I will help you, says the Lord; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. –Isaiah 41:10-14
I'm sitting with these verses for a bit per my spiritual director. The bold emphasis there is mine - or maybe the Lord's to me. What a thing to say - worm, maggot - even though you're a worm, still, don't worry, I will help you. I am your redeemer. It gets down to that. It has to get down to that for me, right now. I know He is there. I know He will help me. I trust that He is leading me. There are all kinds of things I could look up at and be distracted by, and I have been doing so, but I need to stop that and learn how to simply trust Him.
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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