Do you feel that life with all of its carefully laid plans is about to fall into pieces around your feet? Are you a victim of conditions for which you are not responsible and from which you cannot escape? Are you bewildered and puzzled by what appears to be life’s incomprehensible? Are there fears and misgivings where there should be confidence and promise? Are the griefs, the sorrows, the anxieties and the uncertainties blocking out of your life the hopes, the joys, the high expectations which seem rightfully yours? Is there darkness where there should be light? Is there chill where there should be warmth? Do you feel disheartened? Are you tempted to give up?

Don’t do it! Listen to the words of God’s great prophet, speaking to his fellow countrymen who were living under the most desperate conditions--conditions full of menace, and wearied and weakened by fears and anxieties:

“Behold your God! Behold, the Lord God will come with a strong hand. It is He that sitteth upon the circles of the earth; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names: by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power, not one faileth.

“Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, nor Is weary? He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.

“Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, they shall walk, and not faint.”

Take heart, my friend--behold your God!