IS NOT THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH YOU?

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

AUGUST 10

 

1 Chronicles 22:18

Is not the LORD your God with you?

 
Believer, it is your privilege to have the Lord always with you.
 
He is pledged to you by promise.
 
He has said, “I am with you always.”
    “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
 
He is with you as a Father to care for you; as the Omnipotent God to defend you.
 
He is with you to counsel you in difficulty
   —to guide you in perplexity
   —to strengthen you in weakness
   —to deliver you in danger
   —and to comfort you in all your tribulations.
 
Your God has always proved himself true to his word.
 
Is not the Lord your God with you?
 
Poor Christian! Tempted soul! Tried believer! Sick saint!
 
Is not God with you?
 
Who sustains you?
 
Who supplies you?
 
Who preserves you from desperation?
 
He is with you.
 
Trust in him.
 
If the Lord be with you, you are a match for Satan
   —for the world
      —for every trouble
         —yea, for death itself.
 
Endeavour to realize the fact, God is with me.
 
Say, “The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge; therefore we will not fear.” — “I will trust and not be afraid,—for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he is also become my salvation.”
 

With us is Jehovah of Hosts,

Our God as in Jacob of old;

Our soul of his faithfulness boasts,

And in God we our refuge behold!

 
James Smith