He wont Leave!

For someone like me, who suffers from the issue of abandonment; hearing that God loves me and wants to have a relationship with me was just something that I could never take serious or believe. My issue rooted from individuals who always said the words, "I love you", "I'll always be here for you", "We'll get through this together", etc yet whether intentional or not they walked out of my life leaving me with the empty feeling of abandonment. This issue has impaired my relationship with the one true person who would never leave me and truly does mean the words I Love You but through my interactions with others trusting God just seemed like a big risk.

For two years I have struggled and wrestled with the idea of trusting the words that "God will not abandon me and that He loves me". Through painful trials and constant reassurance over the past few months I can finally say that the words in Isaiah 49:15, " I will not forget you"; are in fact true.

To feel abandoned is a lonely place and to feel that the god you believe in is so far off and can't hear you is an even worse feeling. For so long I felt I wasn't good enough to talk to God because of all my problems but one thing has become very evident when reading the Word and that is He hears our cries no matter what state we are in. Psalm 18 so beautifully express', "In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears". Love has no bounds. Love doesn't care what you've done. Love endures all things. Love is a refuge. Love is perfect. God is Love.

God's love for us is enough for him to engrave our names on the palms of his hands(Isaiah 49:16), God's love for us is enough for him to desire us to be with him(John 17:24), God's love for us is enough that he would send his only Son to die for the transgressions of all mankind(John 3:16). Without a doubt I can now stand confident and proclaim that the love of Jesus Christ is real and is never ending. Abandonment is never something you have to worry about when your walking with the King!