My Mom hasn’t forgotten me. Her compassion toward me seems unending and unbending. How often I see young children who can’t say that about their mother! And here I’m in my mid-fifties, blessed beyond what I realize. May God bless my mother today.<\/p>\n
But that’s not what this post is about… <\/p>\n
I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.<\/strong> -Jonah 2:4<\/p>\n
Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -Isaiah 49:14,15<\/p>\n
I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. -Lamentations 3:17,18<\/p>\n
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. -Psalm 44:23<\/p>\n
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? -Isaiah 40:27<\/p>\n
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. -Isaiah 54:8<\/p>\n
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance. -Psalm 43:5<\/p>\n
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. -2 Corinthians 4:8,9<\/p>\n