"All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:16).
With those words washing over my racing thoughts like a gentle wave smoothing the shore, my heart slows and my breathing becomes regular.
I'll go nowhere in 2013 He hasn't already been. He has written my days. When I wake up each morning, He's already been there. He's already seen it all. He's already carried it to completion. He's already won victory. Nothing will happen to me in that day that He has not already taken complete control of. There is nothing I'll face that He hasn't faced already, that first day that He wrote my story, that first time He smiled and penned an entire life with care and compassion and mercy and love...my life. The life He died to redeem. The life He wooed and won. The life He carries and sustains and breathes life to each and every day. The life He knows, inside out, because He Himself is its Author. The life in which He will prove His glory; the life in which He will prove His faithfulness.
The days I feel in my heart the sentence of death...this will happen that I might not rely on myself, but on God, who raises the dead (2 Corinthians 1:9). He knows the way that I take (Job 23:10). When my spirit grows faint within me, He knows my way even then (Psalm 142:10). He will shield my head in the day of battle (Psalm 140:7). When I'm bruised, He will not break me; when I feel like a smoldering wick, He will not snuff me out (Isaiah 42:3). Though my world should shake, though everything I thought was firm and trustworthy and steady be removed, His unfailing love for me will not be shaken (Isaiah 54:10).
I will live in safety, and no one will make me afraid (Ezekiel 34:28).
God has promised. And He cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
And at the end of 2013 I will be able to say, as I can say of 2012: Never once did I ever walk alone.
