Excerpt taken from “Great Living Series:  Elijah, A Man Who Stood with God (Charles R. Swindoll)

 When we hit a tough spot, our tendency is to feel abandoned, to become resentful, to think “How could God forget me?” 

 In fact, just the opposite is true for at that moment we are more than ever the object of His concern.  He uses the wonderful image of a young mother with her new baby and surprises us with a realistic reminder:  “Can a woman forget her nursing child?” 

 You wouldn’t think so, would you?  But look at the stories in the news and you know that women do exactly that.  Babies are left in dumpsters.  Tiny babies abandoned, sometimes abused or tortured or murdered.  Yes, as unimaginable as it seems, even a mother can forget her nursing child but here is the clincher.  NOT GOD!  No, not God.  He will never forget us.  We are permanently inscribed on the palms of His hands.  Not one fleeting moment of life goes by without His knowing exactly where we are, what we’re doing and how we’re feeling.

 Isaiah 49:14-16 – “Can a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb?  Even these may forget but I will not forget you.  Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.  Your picture is continually before me.”