"I could disappear tomorrow and most people wouldn't even notice for weeks."
How it sounds in your head: If I stopped showing up, how long would it take for anyone to call? Days? Weeks? My wife would notice, but who else? The world spins fine without me.
"How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You."
-- Psalm 139:17-18Isolation combined with enemy assault during vulnerable transition from active career to retirement.
Phone doesn't ring like it used to, social calendar thinned dramatically post-retirement, former colleagues rarely reach out. Days pass without meaningful conversation outside his wife.
Isolated in a cave, convinced he was the only one left and nobody cared if he lived or died. God INSTANTLY revealed 7,000 others He'd preserved, sent an assistant, and gave him a new assignment—proving he was never as alone as the enemy made him feel.
I REFUSE the lie that I could disappear unnoticed. IT IS WRITTEN that God's thoughts toward me outnumber grains of sand—I am CONSTANTLY on His mind. The enemy wants me isolated, but the Father says I am never alone, never forgotten, never dismissed. IT IS WRITTEN that He will never leave me nor forsake me. My significance isn't measured by phone calls or social calendars but by the attention of Heaven itself. I am covered by the BARAK blessing—surrounded by divine favor whether human eyes see it or not. I am the apple of God's eye, hidden in the shadow of His wing.
The Father hasn't taken His eyes off you for one second—before you woke today He thought of you thousands of times. He's not waiting for you to be more social or connected; He's running toward you right now with the robe that says 'MINE' across the back.