Even in our fear and searching, God was already there before we knew to look for Him. You carried me, Jesus.
“Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.”
“And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.”
“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.”
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He was carrying you before you even knew to ask.
Look back over the hardest seasons — the fear, the uncertainty, the nights you didn’t know how you’d make it. You weren’t holding it together on your own. He was carrying you the whole time.
And on the cross, He carried something far heavier than our circumstances — He carried our shame, so we wouldn’t have to.
Where do you need to remember that God has already carried you through before? What would it look like to trust Him to carry you now?
Thank Jesus for the specific ways He’s carried you — name them if you can.
Ask Him to carry whatever feels too heavy today, and thank Him for carrying your shame on the cross.