He will never leave us

He will never leave you nor forsake you.  Deuteronomy 31:6

After God revealed to Moses that he would not be the one leading His people across the Jordan, the great patriarch addressed the Israelites and told them the news.  He then presented Joshua, the new leader of Israel, and passed the torch with magnificent-God-inspired words, “The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged,” Deuteronomy 31:8.    

These words spoken a few millenniums ago are just as alive today as they were back then.  They are words eternal that touch the most inner corners of our souls when we find ourselves face down, on the deepest pits of despair.  These divine words bring light into the darkness and a breath of fresh air into our lives.  They bring hope to the hopeless; and peace to the shaken.  They remind us that He is faithful and that He leads us.  When we belong to Him, there isn’t a place we go that He does not go with us. 

Though the world, our family, our children, our friends, and everything and everyone we love may disappoint us, betray us, abandon us, forget us, leave us behind, reject us, discard us, hurt us, or even die on us; not the God our Lord.  He will never leave us, nor forsake us.  He is the Great I AM, who was, and who is and who is to come, the Almighty! (Revelation 1:8)