September 11

"Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name. You’re mine. When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you.  When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end—Because I am God, your personal God, The Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in! That’s how much you mean to me! That’s how much I love you!” Isaiah 43:1-4 (MSG)

God, your very up close and personal God, is with you always, watching, waiting, ready to pull you up, or pull you out of any place you are not meant to be. Always ready to save, deliver, and set you free. There is no hole too deep; no night too dark; no sorrow too great that He will not meet you in or rescue you from.  You are His, precious one, and you mean the world to Him. 

The price paid was high, the life of His own dearly loved Son, but together they agreed; you were worth it all.  Don’t listen to the lies, the shadows, or the shame that wants to speak otherwise; rather hear instead the strong echoes of love from His wildly beating heart—strong enough to silence it all.  

It matters not where you are right now, in the heights or the depths of it all, for He is most assuredly right there with you.  Lavishly loved, secure in the grip of grace, that’s you dear one. You belong to the God of all Creation—the Maker of Heaven and Earth—and the Maker of beautiful, remarkable, unique, and clothed in glory, you! Oh celebrate, chosen one—it’s all so very true! and clothed in glory, you! Oh celebrate, chosen one—it’s true!