THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE INTERVENTION-Conversation IV: I Will Carry You

Welcome to Pomoja Ministry. In our previous conversation,

we discovered something extraordinary about divine

intervention. Sometimes God changes the situation.

Sometimes God moves the enemy. Sometimes God

opens the sea. Sometimes God closes the mouth

of the lion. Sometimes God enters the furnace.

And sometimes, when our strength has reached

its limit and the journey becomes greater than

our ability to continue, God does something much

more intimate. He carries us. But there is something

about that revelation that I have not been able

to leave alone. Because after discovering that

Moses described Israel's journey through the

wilderness by saying, the Lord your God carried

you as a father carries his son. I began to wonder

whether being carried by God is actually much

bigger than what happens during our most difficult

moments. And then I came to Isaiah 46 and suddenly

the revelation became much larger. Because listen

to what God says, listen to me, you whom I have

upheld since your birth and have carried since

you were born. Even to your old age and gray

hairs I am he. I am He who will sustain you.

I have made you, and I will carry you. I will

sustain you, and I will rescue you. There are

passages of scripture that you can read quickly,

and then there are passages where you need to

stop. This is one of them. Listen again to the

progression. I have upheld you. I have carried

you. I will sustain you. I will carry you. I

will rescue you. past, present, future. God is

not describing one emergency. He is describing

a relationship. He does not say, when you become

weak enough, perhaps I will carry you. He says,

essentially, I have been carrying you longer

than you realized. And perhaps that changes the

entire way we understand divine intervention.

Because maybe divine intervention is not simply

what God does when something goes wrong. Maybe

our entire lives are being sustained by interventions

we never see. Maybe there are things God prevented

that you will never know He prevented. Maybe

there are doors He closed that frustrated you

at the time but protected you from something

you could not see. Maybe there are relationships

that ended because God knew where they were taking

you. Maybe there are delays you interpreted as

rejection. that were actually protection. Maybe

there are moments when God redirected your steps

without ever explaining what was waiting on the

road you wanted to take. And maybe there are

prayers you thought God ignored because His answer

did not look like what you requested. What if

some of the greatest interventions of your life

are interventions you will never know happened?

That is the mystery. We celebrate the accident

God delivered us from. But how do you celebrate

the accident that never happened? Because God

redirected you five minutes earlier. We celebrate

the sickness God healed. But what about the danger

from which He protected you without ever allowing

you to know it was approaching? We celebrate

the enemy God defeated in front of us. But what

about the battles God fought that never reached

our door? We thank God for the doors He opened.

But perhaps eternity will reveal that we should

thank Him just as much for the doors He refused

to open, because divine intervention is not limited

to what we can recognize. And Isaiah 46 introduces

us to a God whose sustaining activity begins

long before we become conscious of it. I have

carried you since you were born. Think about

that. Before you understood faith, He carried

you. Before you understood prayer, he carried

you. Before you understood purpose, he carried

you. Before you knew what your life would become,

he carried you. Before you understood the battles

ahead, he carried you. And God says, even to

your old age and gray hairs, I will still be

there. There's no expiration date on his faithfulness.

There's no stage of your journey where God suddenly

says, you have come far enough, now continue

by yourself. The same God who carried you yesterday

says, I will carry you. Part one, the difference

between the gods you carry and the God who carries

you. But Isaiah 46 becomes even more powerful

when we understand why God said those words.

Because God was drawing a contrast. Babylon had

gods, bel -nabo, idols fashioned by human hands.

People considered them powerful. They decorated

them, honored them, bowed before them, trusted

them. But there was a problem. Those gods could

not move. If their worshippers wanted them somewhere

else, someone had to pick them up. Someone had

to place them on an animal. Someone had to transport

them. Someone had to protect them. Someone had

to carry the very god they were asking to carry

their burdens. And Isaiah paints an almost tragic

picture. The idols are loaded onto animals. The

animals become exhausted carrying the weight.

The people are tired. The animals are tired.

And the gods cannot help anyone, because the

gods themselves must be carried. Then the God

of Israel speaks, and essentially he says, I

am not like them. You do not carry me. I carry

you. What a distinction. False gods become burdens.

The living God carries burdens. False gods require

human strength to sustain them. The living God

becomes the strength sustaining humanity. False

gods must be protected. The living God protects.

False gods must be transported. The living god

says, I have carried you since birth, and even

when your hair becomes gray, I will still carry

you. And perhaps this is where this conversation

becomes uncomfortable, because we may not bow

before statues called Belle or Nebo today, but

humanity still creates things that we expect

to carry us. Money, positions, careers, relationships,

influence. connections, reputation, success,

education, titles, human approval. We place enormous

expectations upon these things. We say, perhaps

without words, if I can just reach this level,

I will be secure. If I can just earn this amount,

I will have peace. If this person stays in my

life, I will be okay. If I can maintain this

position, I will be safe. If people continue

respecting me, I will know who I am. And slowly,

without realizing it, we begin carrying things

that were never designed to carry us. We exhaust

ourselves maintaining an image. We exhaust ourselves

protecting a position. We exhaust ourselves trying

to control relationships. We exhaust ourselves

preserving people's opinions of us. We exhaust

ourselves carrying the very things we hoped would

eventually carry us. And then God says, put it

down. Because whatever you must constantly carry

in order for it to save you cannot be your savior.

There's only one who says, you do not have to

carry me, I will carry you. And perhaps this

explains why God sometimes allows the things

we leaned upon. to become unstable, not because

he wants to destroy us, but because he wants

to reveal what has actually been holding us.

Sometimes divine intervention looks like God

removing something you thought you needed so

that you can discover you are never being sustained

by it. The job changed, but somehow you survived.

The relationship ended, but somehow God sustained

you. The door closed, but another path appeared.

The people you expected to remain beside you

disappeared, but somehow you kept moving. The

resources became smaller, but somehow there was

still enough. And eventually you begin to understand

that thing was never carrying me. God was, and

this is why there are moments when God allows

our supports to shake. Because Hebrews tells

us that there are things that can be shaken,

and there are things that cannot be shaken. Sometimes

we have built our sense of security upon things

that can move, and God loves us too much to allow

temporary things to convince us that they are

permanent. So He brings us back to Himself, not

always comfortably, not always quickly, not always

with an explanation. but faithfully and eventually

we discover that underneath everything we thought

was holding us were the everlasting arms of God.

Part 2 As a father carries his son. Now go back

with me to Deuteronomy because Moses does not

merely say that God carried Israel. He tells

us how he carried them. As a father carries his

son. That changes everything. This is not the

picture of someone transporting an object. This

is relationship. This is affection. This is belonging.

A father does not carry his exhausted child because

the child has earned transportation. He carries

him because that is his son. And maybe this is

the revelation we were approaching in our previous

conversation. God does not carry you only because

you are weak. God carries you because you belong

to Him. Weakness may be the moment when you become

conscious of His arms, but relationship is the

reason those arms were available in the first

place. Israel was not perfect in the wilderness.

They complained. They doubted. They became afraid.

They questioned Moses. They questioned God. There

were moments when they wanted to return to Egypt.

There were moments of rebellion. And yet when

Moses looks backward over the journey, he says,

God carried you. That does not excuse rebellion.

It reveals mercy. Because if God's faithfulness

depended entirely upon Israel's emotional consistency,

Israel would never have reached the promised

land. And if we are truthful, There are seasons

when our own emotional consistency is not very

impressive either. There are mornings when faith

feels strong. There are nights when questions

become loud. There are moments when we declare

God's promises boldly. And there are moments

when all we can say is, Lord, help me. There

are seasons when prayer flows naturally. And

there are seasons when prayer feels like lifting

something heavier than ourselves. But the beauty

of the father's arms is that his strength is

not determined by the strength of the child he

is carrying. The child may be exhausted. The

father is not. The child may not know the road.

The father does. The child may not know how far

remains. The father knows. The child may fall

asleep in his arms. The father continues walking.

And somebody listening to me needs to hear this.

You have been afraid that because you are tired,

God must be tired of you. Those are two completely

different things. Your exhaustion does not exhaust

God. Your inability to understand does not confuse

God. Your weakness does not weaken God. and your

inability to see tomorrow does not mean God has

lost the road. Sometimes faith is not having

enough strength to run. Sometimes faith is simply

allowing yourself to be carried. And perhaps

that is why surrender is so difficult for strong

people. We are accustomed to walking. We are

accustomed to solving. We are accustomed to carrying

responsibilities. We are accustomed to being

the person others depend upon. We know how to

fight. We know how to work. We know how to endure.

But eventually, God may allow us to reach a place

where our greatest act of faith is no longer

doing something for Him. It is allowing Him to

do something for us. To sustain us. To hold us.

To lead us. To carry us. Because there are places

in the journey where your strength cannot take

you. But his arms can. And once you understand

that, divine intervention becomes much larger

than the miracle you are waiting to see. You

begin to recognize that perhaps the miracle has

already begun. Because you woke up this morning.

You are still believing. You are still praying.

You are still standing. You are still moving.

You still have a desire for God. Something inside

you still believes there is another chapter.

And after everything that tried to convince you

otherwise, you are still here. Maybe you have

been waiting for divine intervention to arrive,

but perhaps divine intervention has been underneath

you the entire time. Perhaps the reason you have

not fallen as far as you could have fallen is

because there were arms beneath you. And perhaps

the reason you have not been destroyed by everything

you have walked through is because the one carrying

you has already declared, I have made you. I

will sustain you. I will carry you. And I will

rescue you. And that raises another question.

If God carries us as a father carries his child,

where is he carrying us? Because God does not

carry his children without purpose. Israel was

being carried through a wilderness, yes. But

the wilderness was not the destination. There

was somewhere God was taking them. And maybe

that is the next mystery we need to explore.

Because divine intervention is not only about

what God is carrying you through. Sometimes the

greater revelation is what God is carrying you

toward. Maybe you thought God was carrying you

simply because you could no longer walk. But

what if there is another reason? What if God

is carrying you because there is somewhere you

still have to go? The wilderness was never Israel's

destination. The pit was never Joseph's destination.

The broom tree was never Elijah's destination.

And the shepherd does not find the sheep merely

to hold it in the place where he found it. He

places it upon his shoulders and carries it home.

So perhaps the question is no longer simply,

God, why are you carrying me through this? Perhaps

the question becomes, God, where are you carrying

me? Because divine intervention is not only about

what God is bringing you through. Sometimes divine

intervention is about what God is bringing you

toward. And that is where we will continue our

conversation next time. We are going to follow

Israel beyond the wilderness. We are going to

follow Joseph beyond the prison. We are going

to look at Elijah beyond the broom tree, and

we are going to discover that when God sustains

a life, there is often still an assignment, a

destination, a purpose or a promise ahead. So

until next time, stay encouraged, stay in faith,

and even when you cannot understand the road

beneath you, trust the arms that are carrying

you. Stay tuned as we continue our conversation.

in the mystery of divine intervention. Because

perhaps God is not simply carrying you through

something. Perhaps He is carrying you towards

something. Until next time, this is Pamoja Ministry.

One conversation, one story, one revelation at

a time. God bless you.