What Cannot Be Lost

Does any verse in particular stand out to you?

The psalmist says he was guided by God through grief. He endured some kind of significant loss. He concludes (after being counseled, guided and strengthened by God) that he now has no other desire besides God alone. 

The threat and fear of loss no longer has power over us when God becomes the heart’s only (not just first) desire. The enemy who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy can’t steal, kill or destroy God- therefore He is the only one we can love without fear that we will lose Him. 

Other losses serve us when they help bring us to this realization. 

Other losses further steal from us when we refuse to embrace this realization. 

Grief and loss of any kind (big or small) can either guide us closer to the One we cannot lose, or can drive us further from Him as we cling tighter to what was taken from us.  Spending ourselves in forced attempts to recreate it’s presence in our lives even though we deeply know we cannot. Grief can fix our eyes on either the lost thing or the Thing that can never be lost. If we are honest, most of us go back and forth between the two for quite some time as we heal.

Does your response to loss of relationships, people, places, work, confidence, hope, expectations, things, or any other kind of loss in your life tend to draw you closer to God, or further from Him?

What loss are you currently experiencing right now? Big or small- no loss is silly or insignificant. How can you as v. 23 says- stay always close to God and hold His hand in it? 

My kids don’t always want to hold my hand. Especially when they are mad or hurt about something. But they usually still eventually choose to. 

God doesn’t require a particular emotional state of us when He extends His hand to us. Regardless of how we approach Him, it is good that we are near.