Our bodies and our minds need nourishment every day.  We need water to survive and food to energize us.  God provided plants and animals to satisfy our daily physical needs.

Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV)  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? …”

Worry drains us of energy.  For some people, it turns into anxiety.  It can become debilitating enough for a few that daily activities are almost unbearable to complete, overwhelming them to the point of depression.

God knows the pains of our hearts.  He knows that when we are in the depths of despair that it becomes our reality.  Even when we can’t see Him, we need to keep our eyes on Him because He is there with us in the depths of our pain.  Hold on tight during the storm.  He will bring you out of it.

“I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?  My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.  The LORD watches over you—the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.  The LORD will keep you from all harm—he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”  Psalm 121 (NIV)

The storms of life may rage on.  But God holds on to you.  Trust God enough to hold on tight to Him as your anchor and as the waves crash around you – because God is holding on to you.

God is our hope and our daily sustenance.
Psalm 42:5 (NIV) “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”

Psalm 119:114 (NIV) “You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.”

Ephesians 1:18 (NIV) Paul says, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people…”

~ Take it to heart ~

God holds on and carries us through.
We need to hold on to our hope in God as the storm rages.

For that hope is our daily sustenance
when all else is exploding around us.