𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫

April 06, 2025

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. We are hunted down but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT Bible

No one is immune from trials, troubles, pain, hurt, sadness, grief, sorrow or discouragement. At some point in our lives, we will experience circumstances that will perplex and dismay us, but we serve a great God who will never abandon us. He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us, and we may get knocked down a few times, but we will never be destroyed. It's His promise to us. As believers, we cannot allow the inevitable ups and downs we encounter in life to crush us. Even though in the natural, things may seem grim and bleak, our hope must be in God. He is still in control.

We need to stay in faith, push through the trials, pain and disillusionment and wait expectantly for the change that will come. It's striving, with God's grace and His help and strength to lift ourselves out of our broken state. Needless to say, it will be difficult, but God is with us, holding us in the palm of His hands and things will get better. We will smile again, and joy will fill our hearts, but we have to look up and hold on to God.

Thank you, Lord, for Your abiding presence. No matter what I face or how many times I get knocked down by circumstances and trials, You are with me. Lord, my hope is in You alone and I know that brighter and better days are ahead. I love you, Jesus. Amen!

Be Blessed!

Lydia