Bible Verse of the Day Saturday January 23rd 2021

Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

God is telling the Children of Israel in this chapter of Isaiah that they weigh out and use their gold and silver to be melted down and formed into worthless gods. The people themselves must carry around these insignificant and meaningless gods and idols. The opposite is true; instead of us carrying around our gods and idols, God is the one that has us in His hands and will always maintain and liberate us.

In our verse of the day, God is reminding them and also bringing it to our attention that He will always carry us even to our older years. He does this because of His great Love and the fact that He was the one that created us to begin with. The idea here is that as parents, we will have to carry around our infants. As time goes on, we mature and grow and no longer need our parents to carry us around. As the years turn into decades there might be a time that the children will have to carry the older adults around. However, we will never see the day that we will grow beyond our dependence on God. God will always carry us even in the days that our hair becomes grayer and greyer.

As it has been from the beginning of time, civilization will always get to the point that they believe they have outgrown God. When this occurs, people will rush here and there in an attempt to find a younger god that will allow them to stay in motion with the current race of civilization. Everything in this world has a time of expiration, even these fragile shells we are moving around in.  

The relationships that we enjoy with other human beings in this life are a wonderful gift from God. It is most certainly a comforting thought to know that our personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus will never see an end, it will last for all time and eternity. It is also bolstering and encouraging to know that no matter how rocky and bumpy our paths become or how violently the storms rage outside of our boats, God will never leave or forsake us. 

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