Has God ever let you down?

From Holy Spirit Interactive : Daily Reflection
I found it very meaningful. Read on .

Is this you? "Sometimes it feels like God has let me down. Forgotten my needs. Forsaken me."

Our feelings cannot be trusted to speak the truth to us. Today's first reading ( Isaiah 49:8-15 )assures us that God will never never and again I say never stop caring about us and doing good for us. Mothers have strong, instinctive bonds with their children, but suppose a mother does forget her child? God has a much better memory. And YOU, dear one, are his very precious child!

Read Isaiah's words personalized for you.

This is your Father speaking directly to you about you:
"What are your prayer requests? In a time of favor (my perfect timing) I answer you. What failures and sins and mistakes have destroyed your life? I will restore your land (your life). What addictions or injustices are imprisoning you? I am saying to you: Come out!

"Do you need rest and nourishment? Along the ways that I guide you, you shall find pastures where you will be refreshed. But only if you let me lead you and stop insisting that we try it your way. "

"Let me tell you about those hard times that are drying up your life: The scorching wind and the sun shall not strike you down. Let me lead you and guide you beside springs of water, the powerfully healing waters of my Holy Spirit. I will cut a road through mountains and make the highways level so that you won't become lost or too weary on the road that you travel with me, and you will know which way to go. "

In today's Gospel reading (John 5:17-30 ) look at the intimacy between the Father and the Son. Look at how one speaks for the other. Notice how Jesus, even while in human flesh, does nothing apart from his divine Father. Look at how the only thing that really matters to Jesus is doing the will of his Father. Look at how the Father supplies to Jesus everything that he needs.

Look again at Isaiah's reading. You are just as important to the Father as Jesus is! He completely loves you, his adopted child, no less than his begotten Son! It's impossible for him to love you or anyone incompletely. How well do you know your Father? If you still think he has ever let you down, you don't really know him. He is unlike any human father you've known; he is the Perfect Father.