I begin to write these notes to you, with some reluctance, and not a little trepidation. You see, I am like you—a captive.
I write this, or should I say, I begin to write this in Habakkuk’s Vineyard. A difficult place. A barren place. A place “with no fruit on the vines.”
Tough stuff living in Habakkuk’s Vineyard.
Not for weaklings.
(But then you already know that.)
I just want to say one thing to you today: He sees you.
God knows where you are.
It may be a literal cell. The world may have actually labeled you “a prisoner,” but I have discovered that “prisons” come in all shapes and sizes.
Captivity is not necessarily limited to a one narrow room.
If you are caught in the vise of a diseased or broken body? You know what captivity is.
If you are buried under mountains of debt?
(You know.)
If your life has been sidelined by the caregiving of another who has no hope of recovery, you rise everyday to face the dawn of another day—captive.
Lifeless job? Loveless marriage? Our prison’s may be wide and varied. Yet, I have discovered that though our circumstances may differ? Our needs do not.
And I need to know today: He sees me.
God’s eyes are upon me.
One of my greatest needs, for though the world may forget me? God has promised me He will not.
“…He calls them all by name,”
(He calls you by name)
“…by the greatness of His might, and the strength of His power; not one is missing.”
(You’re not missing either—not to God)
He sees you. He sees me. Though the world, (even The Church) may have forgotten us? God does not! He knows all about it; our captivity.
He sees us.
(our tears)
He hears us.
(our sighs)
We are not “missing” in His accounting!
Take heart sweet captive. The Omnipotent Hand that led you into captivity?
(…you aren’t there by chance.)
He will “keep you” today.
“…by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power.”
(He sees you.)
The DREAM~MAKER’S Promise:
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one is missing. Isaiah 40:26 NKJV
A Caterpillar’s Prayer:
Father, please seal this promise to my heart today. I am so prone to: feeling forgotten. Remind me over and over again, that even if the world forgets me, You never will. Teach me today… just how much you love me.
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