Nurture  

The world can often feel like an unsafe place where you are exposed to the elements. Your natural nature – your flesh – can feel overwhelmed with the pressures of this place you call your home. 

But imagine a newborn child who does not understand the world around it. All the baby knows is that it needs the nurturing love of its mother and father; the close security of being embraced.

I don’t want you to fear the darkness in the earth. You are my child who I am nurturing and holding close, swaddling you in my love. 

You don’t need to wriggle away, like a teenager that slips out of its mother’s arms, afraid to let others see your dependance on me. You may feel the time we spend together in the secret place is not needed so much anymore. You will always have need of my safe embrace so that you can be cultivated and cherished. Will you receive what is so freely given?

Activation: Ask the Father to put you back into the arms of the comforter. Spend some time  feeling and sensing his embrace. 

Psalm 91:1-4 (NIV)

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

Surely he will save you
    from the fowler’s snare
    and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.