Scriptural Truths Concerning Abandonment

Greetings, Wayne, a servant of God, by the grace of God, teaching truth under the authority of Jesus Christ to any who are willing to receive it, or as Jesus put it, to any who have ears to hear. I will be the words in green. Purple highlights in the scriptures are key words of truth.

What is abandonment?

Here is a dictionary definition: to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert:

Have you had someone do this to you? Especially someone you never thought would?

Did it leave you bitter and unwilling to trust anyone again? If so, then these verses should shed light on how men and women inspired by the truth of God view this matter:

2Sa 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler [shield] to all them that trust in him.

Psa 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Psa 9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

Psa 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

Psa 34:22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.

When God is trusted and put first in every walk of life, there is no fear of what your fellow man can do to you, including being forsaken:

Psa 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Psa 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

Pro 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Nah 1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and He knows them that trust in him.

That trust comes from learning truths that go against the grain in our present society, which has been long gone away from God:

Isa 59:2 But your iniquities [lawlessness; sin] have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Isa 59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

And that is the way of the world without the truth of God. There is , however, hope for those who seek Him and will listen to His words:

Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jer 29:12 Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Jer 29:13 And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

There must be a sincere, unending search for God. Acknowledging Him in all our ways in order to be in His presence. These things require time spent in His word, and a willingness to learn:

Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.

God the Father is calling any who seek the truth. And that truth will make you free from darkness and uncertainty, and HE will NEVER forsake you:

Isa 42:6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Isa 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Out from among the sinful world.

Deu 4:31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) He will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.

Jos 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you, nor forsake you.

Next, we see that it is God the Father who calls those who diligently seek Him, and He places them into the hands of Jesus Christ. Jesus then teaches them of God, including the kingdom of God:

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God [Isa 54:13]. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.

Mar 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent you, and believe the gospel.

The gospel of the kingdom of God. And the way we come to Jesus is through repenting or turning away from sin, getting baptized into His name or authority, and receiving the Holy Spirit of God which leads us into the truth of God:

Joh 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Even in the case of a mate, relative, or friend who you thought new the truth but left you anyway, there is understanding from God's word:

1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest [known] that they were not all of us.

1Jn 2:24 Let that [the truth] therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

The words of Jesus Christ carrying out the Father's will:

Joh 17:6 I have manifested your name unto the men which You gave me out of the world: yours they were, and You gave them me; and they have kept your word.

Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.

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Freely I have received, freely I have given.

Farewell,

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