We Are Not Alone

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for theLORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

— Joshua 1:9

We are each like a little child lost in a crowded market, who has strayed but a few feet from his mother, yet because she cannot be seen the child is inconsolable.

So we try by every method devised by religion to relieve our fears and heal our hidden sadness;

but with all our efforts we remain unhappy still, with the settled despair of men alone in a vast and deserted universe.

But for all our fears we are not alone.

Our trouble is that we think of ourselves as being alone.

Let us correct the error by thinking of ourselves as standing by the bank of a full flowing river;

then let us think of that river as being none else but God Himself.

We glance to our left and see the river coming full out of our past;

we look to the right and see it flowing on into our future.

But we see also that it is flowing through our present.

And in our today it is the same as it was in our yesterday, not less than, nor different from, but the very same river, one unbroken continuum, undiminished, active and strong as it moves sovereignly on into our tomorrow.

(Tozer on the Almighty God: A 366-Day Devotional.
Sent to me by Mr. Phil Sarlo)