Day 4 - Never Forgotten

Lord, You will never forget Your people. Now, for the first time, I fully realize Your awesome analogy:  "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast...? (Isaiah 49:15).  Not "the baby she nursed several years or decades ago" (thought that would still be hard, it may be possible, especially with Alzheimer's or something), but the one right there, in her arms: sighing, wiggling, burping, breathing, and, of course, sucking strongly, perhaps even painfully.  That baby is IMPOSSIBLE to forget. You can't even easily walk away from a nursing baby - you'd have to get him off the nipple first and then endure the screams if he wasn't done drinking. No, Lord, You won't forget Your people - both Israel and those of us who are grafted in through Christ.  I love it that You chose this example to encourage and reassure us all that You CAN'T forsake us...it would be just as impossible as my forgetting my baby while he is nursing. 

Tip: If you have to get the baby to stop nursing (if he/she latched on painfully wrong or something), slip your finger between his mouth and your nipple and break the suction.