"I am with you always"

Recently, I've been internalizing how God is ALWAYS with me! It's a simple concept, one so simple that it tends to slip to the back of my mine, but yet so powerful! In my quiet time this morning, I was reading "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young (absolutely love this devotional!) and once again God reminded me of His ever presence.

"When My Presence is the focal point of your consciousness, all the pieces of your life fall into place. As you gaze at Me through the eyes of your heart, you can see the world around you from My perspective. The fact that I am with you makes every moment of your life meaningful."

-Jesus Calling

I'm humbled and thankful every time God opens the eyes of my heart to know Him more. I'm encouraged to know that no matter where I am or what I face, He is always with me!

And on the note of adoption, even though I will not be with my children from the very beginning, I'm at peace knowing and trusting the One I know who will be with them always....

And, surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. ~Matthew 28:20

 

Psalm 139

¹ You have searched me, Lord,

    and you know me.

² You know when I sit and when I rise;

    you perceive my thoughts from afar.

³ You discern my going out and my lying down;

    you are familiar with all my ways.

⁴ Before a word is on my tongue

    you, Lord, know it completely.

⁵ You hem me in behind and before,

    and you lay your hand upon me.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

    too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,”

¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

13For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.