As you look back on your life right now, from whatever phase of life you have reached, what is there that you haven’t seen? Some might say, “Well, I’ve never seen the Alps…I’ve never seen a show on Broadway…I’ve never seen Paris…I’ve never seen the inside of a bar…I’ve never seen a moose…I’ve never seen Halley’s comet…I’ve never seen a grown man cry.”
In Psalm 37, King David told of something that he had never seen in his life. He spoke of how the Lord establishes the steps of man, and “though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand” (37:23-24). Then David said this in verse 25, “I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.”
Do you know why David had never seen this? Because God promises—“I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deut. 31:6; Heb. 13:5). David never saw this and neither will you!