Way to Escape – We Need A Miracle

We are not without God. There is no circumstance, where God’s children can be without the presence of God. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me” (Psalm 23:4 KJV). When we are walking with the LORD, we can be assured, “The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot” (Psalm 16:5). We may not know how to organize our way out of our circumstances, but God is able to “make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1Corinthians 10:13).

The following, Alone, Yet Not Alone, was a hymn sung by Joni Eareckson Tada, from the movie of the same name (2013) about the 18th century captivity of Barbara and Regina Leninger, who were taken by the Lenape (Delaware) Indians from the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. The hymn was sung to them as children and was used to verify Regina’s identity, when restored to her mother.

I’m alone, yet not alone

God’s the light that will guide me home

With His love and tenderness

Leading through the wilderness

And wherever I may roam

I’m alone, yet not alone

I will not be bent in fear

He’s the refuge I know is near

In His strength I find my own

By His faithful mercies shown

That so mighty is His shield

All His love is now revealed

When my steps are lost

And desperate for a guide

I can feel his touch

A soothing presence by my side

Alone, yet not alone

Not forsaken when on my own

I can lean upon His arm

And be lifted up from harm

If I stumble, or if I’m thrown

I’m alone, yet not alone

When my steps are lost

And desperate for a guide

I can feel his touch

A soothing presence by my side

By my side!

He has bound me with His love

Watchful angels look from above

Every evil can be braved

For I know I will be saved

Never frightened on my own

I’m alone, yet not alone

Father, You alone are our certainty. Keep our hearts with the confidence of Your presence. Rebuke the devourer who seeks to separate us from You. Be our Strong Tower for all those, who put their confidence in You. And, return quickly and deliver us. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Our Jōb moment of why me is more common to man than we think. We are our Sovereign God’s possession to do with us as He pleases, but like David, we had rather fall into God’s hands than the hands of the enemy. “And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man” (2Samuel 24:14 KJV). In the end, Job quit defending his own righteousness and began acknowledging God can do what He thinks best. “I know that You can do all things; no purpose of Yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2 NET). At the beginning, Jehovah had acknowledged Job as “none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth [turns away from] evil” (1:8). God has a higher opinion of you than you think. He is willing to preserve us from day to day temptations. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer [allow] you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1Corinthians 10:13 KJV). He taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matthew 6:13 KJV). We are His children, and our Father knows best. Let us remember He is the High King of Heaven, acting in the best interests of His Kingdom, but He remembers our frame as dust. O LORD, be merciful to Your children, “Nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt” (26:39). Amen and amen.