Never Letting Go
Of course to act or speak, we first must have a thought to do so. Our process of thinking is contrived by a myriad of influences. We are subject to messages and thoughts we do not solicit offering us tantalizing and intriguing variants, deviations from the life we choose to lead. Suggestive motives and unrealistic outcomes show little consideration for the actualities of life. Discernment becomes the order of the day for those who wish to lie in the arms of pleasures and rewards far beyond anything this earth has to offer. Our faith is marked in our ability to overcome and rise above these fallacies, these untruths. Our expectation to failure is mitigated by a Savior who refuses to leave or forsake us, by the Savior who never lets go.
Our words are probably the easiest to control and when we think of some of the things we may have said to others, we wonder how THAT can be true. In the book of James we see the tongue and the words we speak as a world of wickedness, contaminating and depraving the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of man’s nature. A restless, undisciplined and irreconcilable evil, full of deadly poison. We should not boast of our bitter jealousy, envy, contention, rivalry and selfish ambition for this places us in defiance of the truth. Wherever these things exist, there also is confusion, unrest, disharmony rebellion and all sorts of evil and vile practices. Our words should be constructive, supporting and encouraging and when they are not, when they condemn, criticize and disappoint, the Lord if faithful to never let go.
The deeds we carry out the things we do very often are corrupt. Corrupt not only in the sense of being criminal but rather that the motives behind our actions have less then honorable intent. Subject to measures and temptations that even may be beyond our control, we succumb to the pressures and violate our own code of ethics and morality. Though we know the right thing to do, we fail to stand on that righteousness and compromise our understanding. Paul writes about this in the book of Romans chapter 7, a section referred to as “the inner conflict”. In verse 21 he draws a conclusion that it is a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand, causing the conflicts in our decision making. Imagine a law which decrees that evil is close at hand corrupting us in to doing what we understand is wrong. Regardless, the effects are negated because we follow a loving and merciful Savior who never lets go.
Our thoughts, words and deeds make up the essentials, the essence of who we are and though we fail at times, when our hearts become overburdened with our sense of despair, when illness breaks our spirit and when we grow hopeless because of our inadequacies and failures, we can stand tall, firm in the knowledge that the God we seek to serve will never let us go. This message and promise are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He will pursue us in our unfaithfulness, seeks us in our unbelief and reassure us in our irreverence.
He never lets go in our fear, our worry or in the darkest parts of our thoughts, words or deeds. As storms rage around us, as surging rivers threaten to overtake us, where light is barely visible in the darkness of our hearts, the light is Him, Lord Jesus, never letting go……
