I am a singer, songwriter, wife, mother, Jesus follower. I send out a 2-minute read every Tuesday about Jesus and life in God.
Keeper
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Hi Friends, My heart has been stirred today with a simple meditation rooted in John 17:12. Jesus prays to the Father, saying: “I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost…” Kept. What are you facing today? Take heart. You’re in the hands of Jesus. He keeps and loses not one. A few hours after this prayer, when He is in the garden of Gethsemane with His disciples, Jesus demonstrates this keeping: The soldiers and Pharisees come with weapons and torches. Shadows are cast everywhere in the dead of night. Confusion abounds. In the mayhem and menace, Jesus asks that his friends be allowed to go. He asks the soldiers for their release “that it might be fulfilled which He spoke, ‘Of those whom You gave Me I have lost none’” (John 18:9). Yes, in His hour of deepest distress, Jesus is keeping. Nothing distracts Him from it. Nothing can snatch us from His hand. No Roman guard, no enemy, no unknown. No confusion or evil plot or dark night. Jesus keeps and loses not one. Maybe you feel a bit crazy. Like the winds are whipping across your face, hair in your eyes, trying to keep your two feet beneath you. The days you could tell up from down are a luxury past. For now, uncertainty is the water you’re swimming in. Perhaps the words of Psalm 121 are for you today: “The Lord is your keeper”. Your keeper. For He keeps and loses not one. Hallelujah. —Anna |
Anna Blanc
I am a singer, songwriter, wife, mother, Jesus follower. I send out a 2-minute read every Tuesday about Jesus and life in God.
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