Psalm 71:1-3 English Standard Version
Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent
1 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
3 Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
In a sea of drowning people God pointed His grace at me and said, “Save that one.”
When thinking back upon my salvation story it doesn’t feel like that. The first inkling of salvation I can remember was being grasped by a power I did not understand. It felt like an introduction, as if God was saying, “I am the God that can change you.” How He did it and why He did it escaped me.
Even today, decades after my salvation, I still am in awe of why He chose me. I wasn’t the only person drowning in a sea of sin. Why me, when that moment? I can only be grateful that He did.
Kingdom living can get busy. We find ourselves caring more about others than ourselves. That is as God intended but along with that burden of love there is a danger of getting so busy we allow those early days to slip from our memory.
At a certain age we can begin to see what God has done in us and begin to understand why God chose us from the beginning. He knew what He could do with this lump of clay. We see all lumps of clay alike but not so God. He sees the finished product before He even made the choice.
Don’t get so busy that we forget it was God who chose us and not we who chose Him.