God Watches Out for Me
©2017 Susan Noyes Anderson
Art by David Bowman
In ways I cannot always see,
I know God watches out for me––
His loving instinct to protect
expressed as I might not expect.
Storms threaten, and I beg release;
instead, He leads me to His peace.
I call on Him to still the sea;
most times, He simply buoys me.
Illness descends; I pray for cure.
He lifts me higher to endure.
This mountain is too steep, I plead,
but He removes it not from me.
Ease keeps us small, too weak to stand;
struggle and strength go hand-in-hand.
Still, when woes rush at me in pairs,
sometimes I wonder if He cares.
Then in my heart of hearts I kneel,
as He assures His love is real.
In ways I cannot always see,
I know God watches out for me.
∞§∞
“The safest place in all the world is in the will of God, and the safest protection in all the world is the name of God.”
Warren Wiersbe
“A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.”
Philip Yancey
“If the Lord be wth us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer, His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.”
John Newton
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