The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms…   Deuteronomy 33:27 NIV

To me this promise is the ultimate picture of love. I have never felt the arms of a loving father around me. All my life I have struggled to feel loved. It created in me a hungry heart. As a teenager my heart yearned to be loved, to have protective and caring arms around me. I soon found that although there were promises of love, none really filled the emptiness. Many times, broken promises left an even greater void in my soul. Maybe that is because only God can fill and truly satisfy our needs. His love is perfect, his care constant and his promises trustworthy. God really is our refuge, and those arms of love will never cease to hold us. 

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