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When someone abandons you at a time when you needed their support, it can be incredibly emotionally painful, as anyone who has gone through this can confirm. Abandonment conveys the hurtful message that “you’re not worthy of attention because you lack value.” However, it’s essential to recognize that you are entirely deserving of meaningful connections, and God Himself longs for a genuine, personal relationship with you; and it is our relationship with Christ that matters most!
Family, friends, colleagues, and mankind in general will fail you, NOT GOD!
It’s crucial to realize that experiencing abandonment doesn’t cast a shadow on your character. Instead, it reflects the actions of those who abandoned you, serving as a mirror of their father Satan, as described in John 8:44, who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). Even though you can’t alter the past, you have a chance to start fresh today. Consider the empowering words of Paul in Philippians 3:13.
‘Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ‘
Philippians 3:13
The God of the Bible values and loves you because He created you. He genuinely cares for you, He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, Who died for you and He gave you His Word—the Bible—to guide you through everything in life, even being abandoned.
Here are scriptures to help you with abandonment:
‘Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” ‘
Hebrews 13:5
‘What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”’
Romans 8:31-36
‘Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
Romans 8:37-39
‘When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me.’
Psalms 27:10
‘He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.’
Psalms 91:4
‘and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.’
Colossians 2:10
Healing and Moving On Begins with Forgiving
We forgive! Because we know why they do what they do. They are enemies of God. And we are to forgive them just as the Lord has forgiven us.
Easier said than done, no doubt. Even though we are a new creation, believers experience the same emotions as the rest of the world. In other words, as believers, we still get brokenhearted and feel alone. But we are NEVER alone, we must ALWAYS return to God’s Word and pray. And God “WILL” comfort us and direct our paths.
‘And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.’
Ephesians 4:32
‘bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. ‘
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