What if you've been asking the wrong question?
Most of us, when life gets painful, pray the same prayer: please make it stop.
Clear the diagnosis. Mend the relationship. Ease the pressure at work - just for one week. And when it doesn’t stop, we start to wonder whether God is listening, whether he cares, whether we’ve done something to deserve this.
But this week I’ve been sitting with a verse that quietly reframes all of that.
Isaiah 43:2 says: “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.”
Notice it doesn’t say if. It says when. God isn’t surprised by the storm you’re in. And his promise isn’t that he’ll always pull you out before you get wet. It’s that he will be with you in the deep.
That’s a different kind of promise. And honestly, when you stop to think about it - it’s a better one.
Because it means there’s no appointment, no sleepless night, no difficult phone call, no moment of exhaustion or grief, where he isn’t already there, waiting to walk with you.
This isn’t just a Sunday promise. It’s a Monday morning promise. A 3am promise. A sitting-in-your-car-before-the-hard-conversation promise.
In today’s devotional, I unpack three things that word through does in that verse - and I give you one tiny, practical step to take today, wherever you are.
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You are not alone in this.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/when-the-storm-wont-stop-and-what?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true