WE ARE NEVER ALONE

 

WE ARE NEVER ALONE

This world

Often sets

IMPOSSIBLE STANDARDS for us

It tells us

That we should

LOOK like the guy or the girl

On the television commercials

(and our mate should look like that too)

Or we should be driving

That brand new luxury model car

BARELY possible goals

For some of us

IMPOSSIBLE for those of you

Like me-AVERAGE

And sometimes

This leaves us

FEELING like we are alone

Like we are the ONLY ONE

Who can't

Live up to these standards

But the truth is

WE ARE NEVER ALONE

GOD CHOOSES you and me

For GOD

Is our shield

“To him

WHO alone does GREAT wonders

HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER” Psalm 136:4

And for those of us

Who are chasing God

OVER the things

Of this world

God tells us

NOT to worry

The psalmist tells us,

“But you (God)

Are a SHIELD around me

O Lord

You bestow glory

On me

And lift up my head” Psalm 3:3

Our Lord and God

PROTECTS

WEARE NEVER ALONE

The world tells us

That in hopeless situations

To give up

It says,

“You can't do this

with your own resources

So you might as well

Give up”

But GOD tells us,

“You don't have to

DO IT ALONE

You have to give up

And LEAN on me”

So if you get

A bad health diagnosis

That says

You can't get better

If you don't

Have Enough funds

To buy that beautiful car

If you don't

Look like MR. GQ

Or aren't a perfect ten

GOD TELLS US

We still matter

God tells us

WE ARE NEVER ALONE

GOD is our shield

“The Lord is my STRENGTH

And my SHIELD

My heart trusts in him

And I am helped

My heart

Leaps for joy

And I will give thanks

To him-in song” Psalm 28:7

So the next time

The world tells you

That big lie

Sets you up

For that impossible standard

REASSURE yourself DAILY

Based on the evidence

That GOD-and OTHERS are with you

And that

WE ARE NEVER ALONE

Robert P. Wallman

11-19-13

ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH Magazine by Phil Fox Rose

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