I didn’t forget about you.

Isaiah 49:15–16 NKJV, ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before me. ‘

Hey friend,

How are you doing? :)

I can’t believe November is almost over! It’s been a long year but despite that, it’s managed to go on very quickly. How crazy is that?

Seeing as the year is coming to an end, I’ve been reflecting a bit and I was thinking about the plans I had at the start of the year and how they’ve progressed.

At the start, I had a Plan A and that was my only plan for 2020. Nothing was going to stop it, it was bound to happen. Unfortunately, Plan A went left and circumstances forced me to make a Plan B that I was comfortable with. Sadly that went a bit left as well so I had to fix it asap, haha.

While all this was going on, I struggled to see how God fit into all of it. I mean the Christian advice one would probably have gotten would be to ask God, ‘What do you want me to do, Where do you want me to go?’. But in this instance, practically speaking, I felt I couldn’t do that. Because it was like, what did I expect? Did I want God to sit at my bedside telling me what to do? I mean, I wanted Him to so many times. But during this time, I had to trust the wisdom that He had given me and the wise counsel He had surrounded me with, to guide me on what my next path was supposed to be.

By the third month of the year, I had gotten to the point where I felt alone, forgotten, unloved and I can remember my birthday being one of the worst birthdays I’d ever had, just because I felt God had isolated me. I was so upset with Him.

See, it’s easy to move on from Plan A to Plan B when it’s just you and you have everything worked out. But when there’s no Plan B and you find yourself stuck in the same position as your peers & all of a sudden, it’s like the doors are being opened for them but being shut against you, it can almost certainly mess with you — depending on the degree of what it was that you were expecting.

And so that was me. I was disheartened because life worked out for some people but not for me.

Sometime in March, I was at the airport returning home after successfully fixing Plan B and I remember just sitting there battling a cold (Hello, Corona season 👀… Haha, it wasn’t Corona), and someone dropped a Christian Magazine in my hand. On the front page, it had the picture of a woman, with a 2020 clock and the caption, ‘You are not Forgotten’. I remember being in shock, because the message was so timely. But I also remember just thinking that, God saw, He cared and He hadn’t forgotten.

I want to ask you, what plans did you have for this year? Did they work out? If they didn’t, how has that impacted your view of God’s hand in your life? Because yes, things happen and plans change but the truth is, you have an anchor for your soul. He is Faithful, Steadfast & Sure; He never changes.

Although I didn’t see it then, my plan B was probably the best decision I made for myself, considering coronavirus and how it literally halted people’s lives. This is because, even in the midst of the uncertainty, I found certainty and God gave me peace. So when I look back at the events and how they fell into place, I just think wow, God was just reordering my steps and I really wasn’t forgotten.

In one of my favourite songs, there’s a part that says, ‘Your love’s too good to leave me here.’

For me, this means different things:

• God’s love is too good to leave me the way I was, in the old man — Hence, He gave me a new nature.
• God’s love is too good to leave me in whatever my current issue or situation might be.
• God’s love is generally too good to leave haha.

I don’t know if you’ve been in a place where you’ve been feeling like God has left you or His love just hasn’t been like the way it was before. You may be feeling like this because of stuff going on with you or your family, or maybe its a school/job situation, or maybe you’re just wondering what direction your life’s going in. Yes, 2020 is almost over, but your story isn’t. This is me reminding you that no matter what your situation looks like, God’s love is too good to leave you stuck in it.

He is the God who sees (Genesis 16:13), and even as He is the one who brought you into this life, He will carry you through it, lighting up your path and quieting you with His love, every step of the way. Now, what makes you think that your heavenly Father, who is full of love and light would leave you?

Whatever your current situation is, I speak life into it and I declare that things will begin to work in your favour.

I’ll leave you with this to declare over yourself: ‘My heavenly Father has inscribed me on the palms of His hands; I am continually before Him. He rejoices over me with gladness, He quiets me with His love, He rejoices over me with singing. I am His beloved. ‘

You have been accepted into the favour of God. His love over you is unwavering. Believe it, Declare it and Walk in it.

Until next time.

Love and Sweetness,

Mighty Sims xx