Due to many events within our lives, such as external circumstances, physical illness or exhaustion, fear of others, the fear of failure or the loss of God’s presence, we can quickly find ourselves in a deep pit of despair or even depression.
The feelings of despair leave us very empty and without hope. When everything goes wrong around us, where do we turn? What do we do? Who can we trust?
AW Tozer gives two explanations:
“If there’s no God, what’s so special about human beings? They’re just accidental by-products of nature which have evolved relatively recently on an infinitesimal speck of dust called Planet Earth, lost somewhere in a mindless and hostile universe, and which are doomed to perish individually and collectively in a relatively short time.The average person in the world today, without faith and without God and without hope, is engaged in a desperate personal search throughout his lifetime. He does not really know where has been. He does not really know what he is doing here and now. He does not know where he is going. The sad commentary is that he is doing it all on borrowed time and borrowed money and borrowed strength – and he already knows that in the end he will surly die.”
Praise be to our Lord God who provides us with an eternal answer that we can and do experience here and now. He provides us with purpose, with hope and an assurance that physical death is not the end but merely the beginning of an exciting and wonderful eternity of total joy and blessing.
The answer? Jesus. If you or someone you know is in the pit of despair, the following will help you rise up to a glorious future:
1. Hope and trust in the Lord. Psalm 42:11
2. Renewed vision of God and being centred upon Him. 1Kings 19:11
3. Praise the Lord. Psalm 30:1
4. Reviewing what God has done. Psalm 77:11-12
5. Prayer. Philippians 4:6-7
God bless you in 2008 in the hope and love of Jesus, Ps Daren
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