Humility
But Zion said, 'The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me. 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. Isaiah 49:14-15
People do not live trouble-free lives. They have marriage problems, job problems, health problems, financial problems, and so forth. Because people have problems, they sometimes would like to have some help and support.
When we turn to God for help, we might wonder, “Does God know my problems and hear my prayers?” In answer, God assures us in the Bible that He loves us more than our own mother. God never forgets or forsakes His children. There is in the heart of most mothers an almost slavish, sleepless affection for their children. Most mothers will love their children when no one else will have anything to do with their children, when all others have given up on them. But God's love is much greater than even a mother's love.
Perhaps the reason we are lacking God’s promised help is not because God has forsaken and forgotten us, but that we have forgotten and forsaken God. Maybe we are not reading His Word, not praying to Him daily, not worshiping Him regularly, or not trusting in Jesus as our only Savior from our sins. The Bible says human beings “are all like an unclean thing” whose “righteous acts are like filthy rags.” (Isaiah 64:6 NKJV, NIV) We deserve, therefore, to be forgotten and forsaken by God. But God forsook Jesus Christ in our place when Jesus paid for our sins upon a cross. Jesus cried out from the cross, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me.” Because of Jesus, God does not forsake us. If we go to God humbly, not trusting in our supposed goodness, but trusting only in His mercy in Christ Jesus, God will remember us.
Holy Ghost, help me never to forget nor forsake my God, but rather to be always assured that He will never forget nor forsake me for Jesus' sake. Amen.