I'd like to say a special welcome to those who
were just added over the last couple of weeks
to this encouragement call. We try to get it
out a couple times a week, and we hope that you're
blessed by it. You can sign others up as well
on our website, in our app, Life for Toledo,
Life for No. 4 Toledo, which is on the App Store
for iOS and Android. And by texting in, there's
a variety of ways, so let's get them all signed
up. so they can be encouraged as well. Thinking
today of Psalm 139 .10, Even there shall thy
hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say surely, verse 11 says, the darkness
shall cover me, even the night shall be light
about me. Bottom line is, he's talking about
if we should go to the depths of hell or be buried
under the sea or cast beyond the heavens or wherever
we would wind up, God will be with us if we look
to God as our God. If we accept Jesus Christ
as Lord, that means he tells us what to do when
we do it, and as Savior, that means he paid the
price for our sins. If we believe in our heart
and confess with our mouth that he is Lord and
that God raised him from the dead, then we are
saved. We're saved from the agonies of this life,
and no matter how bad they get, he is there to
hold us. He is there to be with us. This is not
a promise of miraculous intervention in every
circumstance, but his presence to stay us through
whatever we may need to experience. as we leave
this life and are with him for eternity, and
as we build up during this life to be with him
for eternity. Thank God that once he's with us,
he will never leave us. Thank you, Lord Jesus.