CARRY ME!

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

365 DEVOTIONS FROM OUR DAILY BREAD

Carry Me!

Read:  Deuteronomy 1:26-33

You saw how the Lord your God carried you,

as a man carries his son.  Deuteronomy 1:31

Kelsey’s daddy was reading to her, just as he did nearly every night before she went to sleep.  She had picked the zoo book, and to her active imagination it was as if she and Daddy were there.  She looked happily at the pages with the giraffes, zebras, and elephants.  But when they got to the page with the grizzly bears, she said, “You would have to carry me.”  She said the same thing when she saw the gorillas on the next page.  Curious, her dad asked her why he would have to carry her.  “Because I’d be scared,” came her straightforward reply.

When the Israelites saw that the fierce Amorites and Anakim were in the land ahead of them, they were afraid.  So Moses, reminding them of how God helped them in the wilderness, said, “You saw how the Lord your God carried you.”  He would carry them again.

We can be certain that the Lord will do the same for us when we are afraid.  When the scary times come, when we are called on to do the hard things life demands, God will lift us up and carry us along.  He gives us His strength in Christ.

Is there something frightening in your life?  Are there some difficult things you know you have to do?  Ask your heavenly Father to see you through.  He will hold you in His loving arms and carry you.    DCE

Beneath His watchful eye

His saints securely dwell;

That hand which bears all nature up

Shall guard His children well. -Doddridge

With God’s arms beneath us, we need not fear

what lies before us.