God’s Got My Back

The doctor said she wouldn’t survive the week. But a nine-year-old looked at her mother’s tears and smiled. “God’s got my back.” Mary from New Mexico watched her daughter’s unshakeable faith change everything.

Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge.
— Psalm 62:8 GWT

On December 28, 2022, Mary stood in a hospital room listening to a doctor say her nine-year-old daughter—a girl who had never gotten sick a day in her life—would not make it to the end of the week. “I was in shock and tears just started rolling down.” And then her daughter looked at her with the biggest smile. “It’s going to be okay, Mom. God’s got my back.”

She was nine. She had just heard her own prognosis. And she chose faith.

Maybe you have faced something completely outside your control—news that can make you hold your breath without even realizing it.

Psalm 62:8 says to pour out your heart—every fear, every tear, everything you cannot say aloud—and trust that God is your refuge.

Pour out every fear before God. He receives it all and becomes your refuge in it.

Three years later, Mary’s daughter still has an unpredictable diagnosis. But Mary has watched her daughter live fully in that uncertainty. “She touches everybody’s life. All she has to do is walk into the room.” She has “changed hearts just by talking to somebody.”

The story ripples forward. Mary’s mother came into this as an atheist. Now she prays. “When I’m questioning my faith,” Mary says, “she shows hers.” A child’s surrender to God’s care became a family’s foundation, and a testimony is still unfolding.

Trust Him always means in the waiting room, silence, and season when the answers haven’t come. “We don’t know why or how she’s still here,” Mary says. And yet, God is their refuge.

Psalm 62:8 extends the same invitation to you today: pour it out. All of it—the fear you’ve carried, the outcome you can’t predict, the thing completely out of your hands. God receives ever bit of it and holds you in His hands.

“At the end of the day,” Mary says, “God’s got us—even when we turn our backs on Him.”
He does. And He always will.

Today’s One Thing
Pray: “God, I pour out the fear I’ve been holding, the uncertainty I can’t resolve, and the outcome I can’t control. You are my refuge, and I trust You with every bit of it.”

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