“God takes more care of us than we take care of ourselves.”
— Charles Spurgeon
It struck me that Elsie, a 3-week old baby when I wrote this blog, will not remember all that her mom went through to bring her into the world. Neither will she recall all the sleepless nights when she was being cared for. Elsie won’t remember being carried from place to place, from room to room. The feedings, baths, clothing, diaper changes, burpings, rocking her to sleep, and playtimes. They’ll only remain a part of our cherished memories.
“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”
― Oscar Wilde
She will not remember how we cared for her. She won’t recall how we superintended her life. In the same way, the Father cares for our lives, taking care of us moment by moment, yet we are oblivious of his involvement. Somehow we think we did it all ourselves. We are blind to the reality that from head to foot we are soaked in the One we seek.
Our lives are like Jacob’s experience at Bethel,
“Surely God was in this place and I did not know it.” — Genesis 28:16
As it says in the Footprints poem:
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."“Listen to me… you whom I upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born... I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” — Isaiah 46:3-4 NIV