God Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You
Posted By admin on June 30, 2010
It is very comforting to know that God will never leave or forsake us. In the context of the scripture found in Hebrews 13:5 it encourages us to stop wasting our time in the greedy pursuit of money and material goods and to be content with such things that we have. The reason we can have this contentment is because God has given us the above assurance of sticking by us at all times.
As always let’s break the words down in these verses and see other meanings the concordance gives us for each one.
Let you conversation: manner of life, way, fashion, character.
Covetousness: love of money, greedy
Content: to be possessed of unfailing strength, to be strong, to be enough, suffice, to be satisfied
Leave: to send back, loosen, give up, to let sink
Forsake: abandon, desert, leave in straits, leave helpless, totally abandon
So first of all our way of life shouldn’t be fashioned by being consumed with the pursuit of always wanting more more and really it is painfully obvious if you give it some thought that if you are always chasing more then you can not possible ever be content or satisfied. I really love the word content here. Normally the word content conjures up images of being laid back on a banana chair on the beach nice and relaxed while you listen to the waves roll in. However being content is a strength, it is being strong and it is being possessed with an unfailing strength. That has a real wow factor to it – doesn’t it?
When looking at the various meanings for leave it drives home to me even more so just how much God loves us. There are so many scriptures about us being called out, come out and be separate, God has chosen us, etc, etc. and God will never send us back, let us go or give up on us. Another meaning for the word to leave is to let sink. Are you one step ahead of me on this one? In Matthew 14 when Peter got of the boat and started to walk on water but then took his eyes of the Lord and onto the problems (wind and waves) and began to sink. What happened? Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. He will not abandon us, he will not allow us to sink.
He also will never forsake us. If you have ever been through any difficulty whatsoever you know how tormenting it can be, indeed the phrase in straits aptly describes the feeling. Jesus will not leave you in that state, he will not leave you helpless and he will never desert you. In conclusion there is another word from this verse that ties everything together so powerfully. That word is never.
He will never abandon us
He will never send us Back
He will never give up on us
He will never loosen his grip on us
He will never let us sink
He will never desert us
He will never leave us in straits
He will never leave us helpless
Yes indeed God will never leave us or forsake us.
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