The Lonesome Valley

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there . . . If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me (Psalm 139:7-10).

Some in the Church think,

others believe,

and yet others live,

as if they walk

a lonesome valley

by themselves.

Alone.

That nobody else

walks it

with them.

But how can that be

When God Himself

says –

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,

nor will the flame burn you. (1)

Can a woman forget her nursing child

and have no compassion on the son of her womb?

Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;

Your walls are continually before Me. (2)

I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (3)

No.

We do not walk a lonesome valley

by ourselves.

Alone.

Forgotten.

To think that,

to believe that,

to live as if that

is true

is to think,

believe,

and live

a lie.

Oh!
Who will tell them
the truth?

(1) Isaiah 43:2

(2) Isaiah 43:15-16
(3) Matthew 28:20