Cultivate Connection - Christ Centred Meditation

SustainYour Words for 2020Welcome to our fifth meditation on your words submitted for the new year. This week's word is Sustain.Go look up Sustain in a dictionary and you’ll see it’s a verb, not just any verb, a contronym. Same spelling, same pronunciation, two opposite meanings.Sustain is used to describe suffering something unpleasant, especially an injury. It’s also used to describe the act of being strengthened or supported physically or mentally. That’s pretty interesting when you think about it.The very word used for oppression, God comes in and redeems it to bring blessing. It seems so like His nature, to take a bad situation and turn it around for His good. The word rolls off the tongue the same, and yet, it’s the heart condition which leads us to one definition or the other.When we’re suffering mental battles, we can look to Him as our sustainer. When life doesn’t seem to be cooperating with us, we can count on Him as the one who so faithfully sustains us.May you find rest in His sustaining power. He