Facing your fears in life can be one of the hardest things you have to overcome. There we were standing by this large crowd of people. Excitement was everywhere in the air, children were laughing and people were hurrying to get a place in the line. My sixteen year son, Jeremy, at that time, turned to me, placed his hands on both my shoulders and said, “I’ll be back. I’m going to face my fears!” He went to get on the giant drop. For me that was a defining moment as his mother. I could see him way down the road in life. I was grateful because I had overcome mine and I believed because I had faced mine, he would also be able to face his. No matter what life might bring his way.
I was depending on you. It was at a time when it was one the most vulnerable times of my life. God had just opened my heart and began to do open heart surgery on me from my childhood. I needed you to carry me to the Father. My mother wasn’t there like yours was. I already had one and I was carrying another and you started pulling away. It felt like the I was suspended in the air. I was about to be dropped at any moment.
Perhaps you were suddenly dropped by your spouse, dropped by your parents at birth and placed for adoption; dropped by your job of twenty years; just dropped. I was terrified because I didn’t know how I was going to land. I didn’t want my babies to be hurt too. Wait.
Wait, until I can get myself together so that we both won’t fall. I had set my hopes so HIGH and I was looking down and could see that this would be a matter of life or death.
I was looking for someone, anyone that might understand. I remembered Mephibosheth. 2 Sam 4:4 and Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
Perhaps while trying to avoid trouble in your life, you ended up getting more damaged in the process. Maybe you were falsely accused of some things, lied on and it left you financially crippled. Maybe when you rose up to go in the right direction things seemed to get worse. No matter what has left you crippled and lamed in your life mentally, spiritually, financially or even physically; there is hope that God has not forgotten you. He knows exactly where you are in life.
Let’s ring Mephibospheth’s doorbell 2 Sam 4:9.
9 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? 6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
No matter where you are right now in your life, God is going to bring you safely to your expected end. He is going to cause you to run and not be weary and walk and not faint. He has not forgotten you. He knows where you live and he knows how to restore to you generational blessings just like he did for Mephibosheth. Get ready Mephibosheth, David is on the way!