Sometimes life is just hard.
Does this describe your life today? If it does, let me encourage you to hang on. You are not alone.
1. Maybe you don’t know what to do with that child (doesn’t really matter how old that child is). You love your child. Of course you do. However, sometimes you feel like you are losing your mind. You may feel so discouraged. Some days you may feel like a complete failure as a parent.
2. Maybe you don’t know what to do with your marriage. You love your husband/wife. Yet, sometimes life together is very hard. Then you look at Facebook and it feels like everyone is having a great life with their family but you.
3. Maybe you don’t know what to do with your life as an individual. You want to live right. You love the Lord and attempt to make choices that please him. However, in this season of life, you really struggle at times.
Do you identify with any of the above three situations? All of these feelings simply mean that you are human. Even as a Christian, you are still human. To struggle does not mean that you are a bad person, a Christian who is lacking, or a person who is failing. You are human.
So as a fellow human, let me encourage you.
1. You are not alone. All of those smiling pictures on Facebook were take at one point in time. Just one point in time. The pictures do not show you what the rest of their lives are like. Many of these people (not all of course) will tell you that they struggle at times just like you.
2. God is with you. He will never leave you or forsake you (Heb. 13:5-6). He will stand by your side and give you strength (2 Tim. 4:17).
3. Know that what you just read is not an attempt to give you an easy answer.
Sometimes life is hard.
Yet, you and I are not alone. God is faithful and will be with you and me — through it all.