“Life is hard. Overwhelmingly hard. So hard that many of us find ways to escape, (i think that sometime) hahaha 🤣 especially when i am facing challenges like blaming game issues etc etc, believing there is no answer for the difficult circumstances life offers.
Sometimes or most of the time we leave relationships because they are more than we can handle. We desensitize ourselves to the pain of our realities with temporary stuff like alcohol and pills, or both or many other. We make the agreement that life is more than we can handle. And I’ll agree to thay. Life is more than we can handle ALONE.
We need encouragement to make it. Encourage: adding courage. Courage to face the hard times. Bravery to keep going through the dark valley when we want to stop and give up. But where can we find this courage? Courage comes from those who love us, and who better to receive it from than our CREATOR? He is our FIRST LINE of defense against the struggles in our life. From Him, we gain the courage to make it each day, no matter what it brings. From His strength we can encourage ourselves to keep going.
Then, we need a family! Or our spiritual family! Or A friends who know us and choose to love us anyway, even with our messiness and failings.
Relationships grow from time spent together. And how is our relationship with God? Is it growing and developing? Do we gain our strength from Him? Do we take our panicky, desperate cries for help to Him?
On those days where life is just slamming us with one thing after another, call on Him first,He is more than enough for us.
“David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the Lord his God.”
1 Samuel 30:6 NLT
“A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.”
Ephesians 6:10 NLT
“Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. “See, all your angry enemies lie there, confused and humiliated. Anyone who opposes you will die and come to nothing. You will look in vain for those who tried to conquer you. Those who attack you will come to nothing. For I hold you by your right hand— I, the Lord your God. And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.”
Isaiah 41:10-13 NLT
“They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them.”
Psalms 112:7 NLT
“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11 NLT
