Keeping the faith

Hi there,
How's it all going?

I went to church this morning, and this mornings sermon was about God doing something new, in our lives.

Isn't Jesus doing something new in our lives every day?
Isn't he there, constantly, when  we fall down?
Ready to save the day?
What if we're just feeling a bit off?
What if we don't have the answers?
Are we supposed to have answers, to everything?
No not everything.
Why then do we struggle?
It in the struggle, that we are being made new.

I was talking to a mother that, had a daughter go through a breakdown, and you just don't' want to think about being admitted, because you think, '' But I'm not one of those people'' I'm not, that person, going to hospital.
Naive as it sounds, that is what we both thought.
I told the doctor, that I've had a long day and I want to go back to my own mattress. to me being admitted, it just, felt like a life sentence.
I even asked mum and I would come out alive.
The brain is amazing thing, and that is why we need to be respectful of our, bodies, and the things we put in it.

You might think there's so much need, and so much needs to be done.
Yes that's right, and good thing that we are part of a team, and hasn't left us to our own devices.

Why when we were younger thought that, our parents knew everything?
We had to much respect for them, because you dad knew how to do stuff.

It's not until we get older that we find somethings, for ourselves.

We honor, them, we look up to them.

Because they know us best, and has the best of our interests at heart.

That might anoy you or it might be pleasant to read.

God only knows, what you've been through, and he knows that you will make it out the other side.

If you're here, because, you've tried everything, you believe everyone with your eyes wide open, you did what people told you to do, but it's still never enough.

Perhaps, you've had a bad day, and you're just waiting for it to be over, perhaps you think that it's been a series of bad days, and you can, wait for them to be over.
 perhaps you're reminding the broken people that it will be ok, but broken yourself.
there's love

Perhaps, you thought ''if only they knew'' but people don't know or didn't believe you.

There is love, and hope.

Perhaps you think shutting out, the door, will be your only way, to close out the others that care.
Don't close the door, on them.

My friend lost his little boy at 6 weeks, of age, and I asked what it was like.

He was very real, and said that he was angry, because someone so incoent was taken away.

More to the point he was angry, when people said, he was in heaven.
sure he is, but not a birthday goes by or a day goes by, that he probably wants him back down, he'd do anything to, see him again.

My friend if you're that person, who has reached the end of your rope and you feel like you're swinging on it.
It's ok, because, it's fun to swing.
so just keep holding on just for one more day, and the Lord will bring you through another dark lonely night.

You know those really dark nights, that you think it's dark then it's really dark, where you feel like you can't see your hand in the dark.
How dark was your darkest time?

I don't need to know, but I want you to know this.

There's no crevice that God doesn't know about.

God is always there, he's not surprised, others might be, but you're believing in a God, that hung out with the wrong crowd when he was down here on earth, he made a point of it.
I think as Christians, we don't talk about struggles, because we should be seen as perfect. about giving, how much money we should give, what to believe, how to pray, what to do when the rubber hits the road.

Are we just on the bench with this Christian life or are we rolling up our sleeves and really living it?


Jesus didn't come for the believers, he came for the people who needed him.

We might not have the answers, but we do have faith, and that faith is real.
It might be a flicker, of a flame, but with that flicker, we can do amazing things.
Jesus is there, if dark clouds come and hide the sun.

All we need to do, is call out his name, and believe.

Nothing complicated, no master 5 steps, just believe.

When we're in that sea, of anger,  or deep darkest nights where we're drowning in loneliness. or depression so dark, that you just can't believe.

Take Jesus hand, and believe.
When he died, on the cross, he was unrecognizable he also died for that situation that you're currently in.
Jesus loves you so much, that  he made a place so perfect, that he knew the pain we suffer. that he made a place without pain.

If you're left wondering what is the point of all this.
It's because, there is a point to all this madness, and that is, we have a Saviour, a present being, to guide us through our stormy days.

That is why we need to anchor on him. and trust him without out trust, we're  drifting through life with no anchor, and we  are just hoping, that we hit something hard  to steady ourselves.

Surrendering our fight, to jesus and let him fight for us, because will never be wary of it, and he always wins.

I asked my friend, one day when the battles that she had to face, and I asked what made her strong to face them.
she said surrendering each and every single one of them.

It seemed to easy, surely she had some magic 9 steps or something, but no.

each and every single day she was open to the lord, and what he was doing in that family.
why?
Because she was faithful.

See when we reach out to the lord, he reaches us first.
he doesn't hesitate.
May Jesus bless you and keep you and continue to shine down upon you and set you free from what you are going through today.

Chloe

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