16 Bible Verses on God Walking With Us, and the Preposition They All Turn On

Christian Pure Team

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Summary

  • Every one of these promises turns on “through”: through the waters, through the valley — never around.
  • Psalm 23 switches from talking about God to talking to him at the exact verse the valley appears, and never switches back.
  • The hills of Psalm 121 had shrines on them; the first line asks whether the help is up there, and the second corrects it.
  • Matthew 11 offers a different yoke rather than no yoke: the load changes shape, it does not go.
  • Lamentations was written in the ruins of a city God allowed to fall, and its evidence is that the disaster stopped short.

Every one of these promises turns on a preposition, and the preposition is always through. When you pass through the waters, not around them. Through the valley of the shadow of death, not past it. Not one of these verses offers a way out of the hard thing; every one of them relocates God to the middle of it. That is a smaller promise than we would like and a more durable one, because it does not depend on the…

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Bibliography (Click to show)

Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The fire that follows the water is at Isaiah 43:2b.

Psalm 23 speaks of God in the third person at verses 1-3 and to him from verse 4 onwards.

Nahum’s image of anger is at Nahum 1:2-6.

The friend who betrayed the psalmist is described at Psalm 55:12-14; Peter quotes the verse at 1 Peter 5:7.

Psalm 121 is one of the Songs of Ascents, sung by pilgrims travelling up to Jerusalem.

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