Isolation with too much social media can amplify the challenges in our lives. We should view these challenges as a means to display God’s power and glory. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. It is the result of living in a broken world. Making sense of it will drive you crazy. But there is one part that has to make sense. We want to know why when it happens to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psalm 139:15-16<\/strong>, “My frame was not hidden from\nyou, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the\nearth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every\none of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Darkness is relative. The darkness in our lives is relative\nto the life He has given us. Some of us will never experience what it feels\nlike not to know when we might eat again. Some of us may cruise through life\nwithout ever losing someone without whom we cannot exist. Some of us will not\nfight addiction or fear or anxiety. But we will all drop into darkness at some\npoint. The depth of that darkness is directly proportional to the degree that\nwe experience hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 1:11<\/strong>, “In him we have obtained an\ninheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works\nall things according to the counsel of his will,”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have lived through very dark days. My rock is knowing Christ was with me every step of the way. My thorn was uncertainty. I know that my life has meaning. I understand that each morning when my eyes first open, I have a purpose. I know that the God of the universe, the most amazing being ever to exist, loves me. But when the path ahead of me is unclear, I fear. I do not fear the ending; I fear the journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psalm 71:5-6<\/strong>, “For you, O Lord, are my hope, my\ntrust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you, I have leaned from before my birth; you\nare he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of\nyou.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Challenges are God’s way of showing just how much He cares. It is in the dark times His light shines brightest. It is when we cannot help ourselves, that He demonstrates why we should rely on Him and why we should always have hope. The journey is sometimes difficult, the path steep and narrow. There may be times when we don’t think we are up to the task and prefer to quit. But it is at that moment, the darkest of all moments when we should take God’s hand and rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Thessalonians 5:18<\/strong>, “Give thanks in all\ncircumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is always with us. He wrote your story before you came into existence. He is the author of your life. Your life is not pulp fiction; it is an eternal biographical classic. Every story has to have moments when it seems all is lost. It is in these moments we see the glory of the author as He pens the impossible, comes from behind, overwhelming all odds rescue. That is our rescue, yours and mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n