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Decades later, the scared little girl inside was still trying to deal with the big issues of life and mostly feeling alone and afraid. This totally fit my picture of a God who had dropped me off, left me to deal with things on my own, and would eventually make everything better when He came to pick me up at the end.
Maybe a week later, while praying this image came back to mind, and I felt like God said, “I want you to know Me as the God who is right there with you.” In the moment, this felt like both a promise and an assignment.
I often think of joining God in what He is doing, trying to see the world with His eyes, and listening for the Spirit about situations I encounter. But this time, I felt like God was saying, “No, you’re not joining me. I am joining you. Where you go, I am going too. Not just the good places, but the hard places, the scary places, even the bad places. I am going along.”
And it felt overwhelmingly relieving to realize that God has been there in the middle of all my “I can’t do this” moments and that He would teach me how to know Him in those moments.
