You’re Never Alone

There is a very creepy song we sing every year that speaks of a man that sees us when we’re sleeping, he knows when we’re awake and he knows if we’ve been bad or good.  Yes, I’m talking about Santa.  That thought of Santa always knowing what I was up to caused me to live a life so that I would be on the nice list every year.  Unfortunately a lot of Christian’s view God this way too.  He’s always watching.  He’s always with you.  Don’t do that, God will put you on His naughty list.  It’s true that God is always watching and that He is always with us, but instead of scaring us into a certain behavior, it should comfort us.

You see, God knows everything about you.  “O LORD, You have searched me and known me” (Psalm 139:1).  He literally knows it ALL, yet He still loves you and is still with you.  But we have to acknowledge His presence.  In Psalm 51 David is coming out of a really dark place where he completely ignored God.  But he is finally at that place where he acknowledges that God is with him.  That God is the one who offers mercy, that blots out our transgressions.

So we live knowing that God is always with us and loves us, but we also need to remember what He did for us.  He saved us!  “Restore to me the joy of your salvation…” (Psalm 51:12).  Remember what it is to be saved.  The God who gave us a way to Heaven when we were bound to Hell is with us.  He loves us.  He gave His son Jesus for us.  “Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”  (Isaiah 40:31). That is what He’s done for us.  So remember this, you are never alone!  And that’s a good thing.  The One who created everything is always with you.