The God Who Comes in Close – your Lion Bites word for today

Look at our history together. Look at the ups and downs, the trials and celebrations, the joys and the sorrows. Look at every deliverance, every healing, every provision and every word. I have not been and will never be absent from you; to believe that I will is a lie. I have set up the way through Jesus so that I cannot be separate from you; it’s impossible! So today, in all of what you see as mess and confusion, come back to my gaze. Come back to my space, and let’s talk about everything that I have done to bring glory and everything I will do. I’m not distant. I’m not cruel. I am so good and so close.

Psalm 116:8-9 NIV
For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

Isaiah 40:11 NIV
He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.