Unfailing Love AND Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27   The ETERNAL God is your REFUGE, and underneath are the EVERLASTING arms.  He will DRIVE OUT your enemies before you, saying, 'Destroy them!'

Jeremiah 31:3  I have loved you with an EVERLASTING LOVE; I have drawn you with UNFAILING KINDNESS.

   Wow!  How comforting are the words and promises our God gives us!

 What are your enemies? Do you feel like they are people, circumstances, situations, attitudes, regrets, fears, or worries?  Or a combination of the above?  I know for me(Myra) it doesn't ever seem to just be one enemy i'm fighting but several at the same time!
  Encouragements i have gotten from this Jesus Calling Devotion have been SPOT ON for me.  It says God wants us to be ALL HIS.  Get this.....He WEANS us from all other dependencies.  Our security should rest in Him and in Him alone, not in other people, not in circumstances, not in who we are or who we think we are or want to be.
  Weaning is not the easiest experience, esp. if it's from things we are used to, comfortable with or things that are habits(good or bad ones).  Weaning is also a gradual thing sometimes.  Sometimes it's a "cold turkey" kinda experience but most often the most successful weaning is one that takes a little time.  It's a decreasing of dependency on one(or more) thing to be replaced by a dependency on something else.  I've always said, you can't get rid of a bad habit w/o replacing it with something else( hopefully that is a positive "something else.")

It does at times feel like following God and His spirit is like walking on a tightrope.  The good news though is that there is a "safety net underneath: THE EVERLASTING ARMS."  DON'T BE AFRAID OF FALLING!  Whoa!  That hits me b/c it seems like almost daily i am afraid of falling or failing or not measuring up.  Instead i should be looking ahead, focusing on my Savior and what He offers me each and everyday.  HE is always ahead of me,  BECKONING me on.  If i don't move ahead and chance the fall or failure how will i ever grow?  And despite the times i WILL fall or fail, that does not nor will not EVER separate me from Him, His LOVE or His PRESENCE.  That sure does bring a LIGHTNESS to my heavy load!

May you be BLESSED and ASSURED that GOD can do for you what HE has says AND OFFERS to you the same things he has offered me this morning here in HIS WORD!

Hand in Hand with you and Him!
-Myra