"EXPLAINATION"

     "Even to your old age and gray hairs

     I am he, I am he who will sustain you

     and I will carry you; I will sustain you

     and I will rescue you."

      Isaiah 46:4

      

     Warren Wiersbe once said, "Nothing is harder to heal than a broken heart shattered by experience that seem so meaningless. But God's people don't live on explainations; God's people live on His promises"

      A grocery list of biblical reason explaining the whys and wherefore behind suffering doesn't always help when you're hurting. What does help are the promises of God. Even though God's. promises are usually devoid of standard Explaination and don't always detail the blue print behind His plan, they do point to the loving character of our God and kind Lord.

      Take Isaiah 46:4. Even for someone bent over with old age and arthritis, God's explaination is simple and powerful, "I Am He, I Am He who will sustain you." God owes us no explainations. He did enough explaining on the cross to show that His Love is sufficient to meet every need.

       Look again at our verse for the day. In one short sentence, God promises that He will rescue, carry, and sustain you. How? At least six times, God uses the personal pronoun to point himself. His promises are signed, sealed, and delivered on the basis of who He is. And He is faithful. He is loving. He resues you and carries you. It's a promises.

       Lord, I don't survive because You roll out in front of me the blueprint behind my painful experiences. I don't live on reason  why. I live on your promises. Draw me to them today and help me to lean on Your loving faithfulness. This will be enough.