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Sustained

Psalm 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 

 

Today’s devotion is sponsored by two simple syllables: sus-tain. It’s a word that means to “support, to hold, to bear up from beneath, to bear the weight of.” Nehemiah 9:21 says about the Israelites, “Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing.” The psalmist says in Psalm 3:5 - I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. David promises in Psalm 41:3 - The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 

Isaiah teaches us in Isaiah 46:4 - And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. 

Like the giant pillars of an unshakable bridge, the promises of God bear us up from beneath. His everlasting arms sustain us through every storm. A hymn by Anne Steele provides a good prayer for today: “My great protector, and my Lord, Thy constant aid impart: O let Thy kind, Thy gracious word sustain my trembling heart.

Under every condition, in every circumstance, for every burden, in every need, through every sorrow, Christ, the source and sustainer of life, is more than sufficient.

A.L. Faust

 

From – “Walking with God” by David Jeremiah