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He Has Not Forgotten

By Chris Talamantez

Have you ever felt forgotten? You know that feeling (before cell phones) when someone was supposed to pick you up, but slowly everyone leaves the building, lights grow dim, each car pulls away, and you are left sitting all alone waiting. You feel awful as you wait there, wondering if anyone will remember to come. Did they fall asleep? Did something happen? Did they just forget? We sit, we wait, we wonder.

And yet recently I found myself approaching the Lord in the same way. Does He hear my prayers? Does He know what is happening right now? Has He forgotten me?

Isaiah 40:27-31 speaks to my heart: “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel: ‘My way is hidden from the LORD, and my just claim is passed over by my God’? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

Some days I need those words spoken firmly right in my face: "Why would you ever complain? Haven't you been listening? The Everlasting God does not get tired or grow weary. He has not forgotten you!”

We can hold on to the promise and the hope that God has not forgotten us, that He does not grow weary or tired. We can choose to wait on Him in hopeful expectation. He promises to renew our strength so that we will soar, run and walk—never growing weary. It is His strength that I need renewed everyday!

Because of her twenty plus years as a pastor’s wife, CHRIS TALAMANTEZ identifies with the challenges most women face in today’s world, and meets them with the wisdom and understanding of God’s Word. But her role as wife and mother is where she finds her greatest fulfillment as a woman of God. She and her husband of nearly 22 years, who is senior pastor of Open Bible Church in Waverly, Iowa, have been blessed with five children.  

Reprinted with permission from http://cwoteam.blogspot.com/search/label/Faith.