God Holds Us Up!
"Sustain me, my God,
according to your promise….
Uphold me."
Psalm 119: 116-117
Do you need someone to sustain you today?
The word sustain literally means “to be held up.”
Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus sustains all things
by His powerful word (NIV).
If He sustains all things, He can certainly sustain
you.
God’s Word is living and powerful, and we can turn
to
it during any circumstance we face.
When King David was running from a rebellion staged by his
son,
Absalom, he found himself in a desolate corner of the desert.
But
he said, “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained
me”
(Psalm 3:5).
In Psalm 55:22, he wrote, “Cast your burden on
the
Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never
permit
the righteous to be
moved.”
When Paul’s ship sank in Acts 27, all the men were saved,
some
by clinging to timbers and pieces of wood. We can cling to
God’s
unsinkable promises, and they will sustain us. He will hold us
up
by His powerful promises. The Lord will sustain you
today.
"I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means,
and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the
worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace."
Charles H. Spurgeon
