Your Love Endures Forever

Hubby is sick. There's nothing like being in a hotel and having a miserable sinus infection. My job today is to take care of him, because he hasn't the strength to move.

Now, don't get me wrong in what I'm about to say. This is a hard task today. Not because I dislike serving him -- in fact, I'm delighted to be the one to pick up prescriptions, watch tv with him, and get a cool washcloth for his toasty head. It's what I signed up for when I got married, and there are few delights in marriage more than loving my husband in ways he can understand and appreciate. No, the hard part comes because I need to be taken care of emotionally today, and he just doesn't have it. (Do not read this as a complaint against my love. It's not.) I'm struggling with the emotions of leaving Texas and moving here. I'd love for him to back me up. But today, he is human. Today he has the strength of a human, which is just not much.

My husband in his human-ness can and will fail me. (Again, not a complaint. Just a statement of our sin nature.) It is in moments like these that I am reminded of the unfailing, everlasting love of my Heavenly Father.

Psalm 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Psalm 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.

Psalm 26:3 - for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.

These are just a few examples from the Psalms. How can I so easily forget that God has not abandoned me, that He has not left me alone? I am not alone! He is with me. He will never leave me nor forsake me. Even when my husband fails me, my friends fail me, my family fails me -- God in His infinite mercy and goodness will not. What a relief to know this!! It's a difficult promise to hang onto when the tangible things in my life slip away, but I know that I know that I know -- the Lord is good. He holds me in the palm of His hand. He knows the number of hairs on my head. He loved me before the foundation of the earth. And to think that I worry about being alone! He is enough. He is ENOUGH.