Many times, we're into situations that we don't like. Situations that we felt so helpless. We don't know what to do. We don't know which way to go. We're stuck.
Then you try to solve your issues still it doesn't work. Day after day, you try and try like unloading some of it but still nothing else work. Soon you feel irritated than usual. You get hot-tempered. You're angry all the time.
You felt powerless.
You ask yourself: "Where do I go from here?"
Then one verse came upon me remembering the only One who keeps saving my life: "Until now you ask nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full." -John 16:24
I start bending my knees trying to talk to God but I can't even feel Him. I felt He can't hear me. I felt I am not being seen by God. But I knew God is true regardless how I feel. Then I start asking: "Did God cast me out of His presence? Is His Spirit no longer with me?"
You see, life is not that hard when you don't like your job or when your debts is rising and you don't know how to pay your bills or when you have some issues with your friends or when you have so much problems at home.
But life gets harder when you feel you're living far away from God. When you don't feel His presence. When you don't hear Him talking anymore. When you are not being of used by God. When you don't serving Him by serving others. You're not even excited to go to church anymore like you used to be. All the joy has gone. Life is draining away from your soul and you feel you are beginning to die yet you are still breathing and alive.
With all of this, one song came to me and my mind begins to sing: "Lord You seem so far away a million times or more it feels today. And though I haven't lost my faith, I must confess right now that it's hard for me to pray..."
As I singing the song, I broke into tears, crying out for God:
"Lord, if You will not help me then I don't know where to go anymore. I know I have wronged You so many times and I am so much aware of my shortcomings. I know I shouldn't blame others for my miseries. I chose this. I let this into my life. And I'm so sorry. But I can do nothing without You. I can't go on in my life without You. I need You Lord. I am asking out of Your mercy, please just help me..."
Then I've seen the hands of God.
I've witness again the power of God in my life.
Because on the next day, my prayer has been answered. The issue that I thought it was so hard to deal with begun to leave me. The Lord gave me deliverance. He gave my freedom. He gave me a way out.
I realized that is the reason why we accepted Jesus in our life.
Having Jesus doesn't mean life will get easier. But we invited Jesus and welcomed Him in our lives because we know life is tough. We need Him more than anything else. We have to carry our cross as we follow Jesus. To be more like Him. To be worthy because He is worthy. To be holy because He is holy. To be pleasing in His sight. To be mightily used by God. To ask God for His blessings so we become a blessing and we may bless others too.
For what's the point of gaining anything in this world but losing your own soul? What's the point of not having God? Because me need Him more than anything else. And I know most of the people who have experienced God will agree with me. For when you don't like your life and you felt you sold yourself to the world, Jesus is our Redeemer. When you stuck in your difficulties and you're helpless, Jesus is our Savior. When you don't have a job or you don't have food to eat in your table, Jesus is our Provider. When our hearts are broken and our bodies is in pain with illness, Jesus is our Healer. When your relationships is way out of control, Jesus is the God of Order. He is always in control. When you doubt and Satan used lies, Jesus is the Truth. When you lose directions and don't know what to do, Jesus is the Way. And whenever you felt you are dying, Jesus is Life.
For no matter how much you wronged your neighbors, yourselves and God, still you can come to our Lord. Never say you are sinful and He will not hear you. Never listen to the devil's lies when he tells you that you are no longer belong to God and He will never forgive you. God is the King of mercy. It is in this situation that He's been waiting for, so you can call Him. So you can let Him work in your life. So He can take away all the pains, all the tears, all the illness and you can be healed. So you may get deliverance. So you may be saved. For all those who REALLY know how to love, they choose their love ones to be happy. Much more God who is our Father who deeply loves us.
"Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their counsel, and we're brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry: And He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies." -Psalms 106:43-45
I pray God will bless your life now my brothers and sisters and have its directions as you want it to be changed. May you have the answers that you've been asking for. I pray that you're joy may be full, in Jesus name, Amen.
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