What does a bad day look like for you? Maybe you just got in a fight with a friend or family member. Or maybe you got in a car accident. Or a close friend just found out they had cancer. Or maybe you just feel rejected or unloved or that your life is going nowhere. Perhaps you struggle with depression and feel like your life is worthless. Any combination of these things can leave us feeling hopeless, that God is far away and doesn’t care.
I have felt this way more times than I care to admit. We all have a dark side and as much as I know God has saved and redeemed me on the good days, the bad days can creep up and make me feel disconnected from Him.
However hopeless we feel, it’s not hopeless enough. Nothing you do matters. You are worthless. Life is completely pointless. Not until we accept these truths as realities can we begin understand and accept what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross.
Without Christ life is pointless, but that makes it so much easier to love Him! We’re much more thankful when we realize the darkness we’ve been saved from.
So today I pray that you realize it’s hopeless. That on your own you can achieve nothing. I pray that this causes you to lift your eyes to Heaven and cry out to your Savior who is always there and always ready to pick us up and breathe life back into our lifeless bodies. May He fill you the assurance of His love and the power of His word.
-Rich O
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