Renew Your Strength Daily, With God’s Help.
Sometimes we fall on rocky places. Sometimes the pressures in life are just too great and we feel like we can no longer bear them. It’s more comforting to stay in bed and pull the covers up over our heads. Somewhere, someone is losing hope. Life is hard…we get bumped and bruised. It rarely ever turns out the way we had planned. The loss of a loved one, the loss of financial security, the loss of life as you knew it, the loss of your health, death, betrayal, and isolation. These things can wash over us like tidal waves, sometimes one upon another until we feel crushed by the weight of them.
When life is full of difficult experiences, we begin to think that things will never change. We travel down this dusty road, letting our dreams roll away. We cannot picture what tomorrow will look like or imagine for ourselves a bright future because we have experienced too many losses to ever see things the same. Life changes us.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40: 28-31
If you are struggling today and need someone to help you get back up, here are some things you can do (I know, because I often need help getting back up):
- Accept the problem for what it is. Don’t make more of it. It is what it is.
- If you can do something to change it, get busy. Don’t procrastinate.
- If it is a situation you cannot change and it continues to make you feel anxious, like everything in your life…give it to God.
- Give it to God anyway.
- Get your sustenance from a moment-by-moment dependence on God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow weary.
- Get a pack of index cards. Write down your prayers throughout the day. Write down the things for which you are grateful. As you write, lay your burdens at the foot of the cross.
- Ask God to carry you.
Moment by moment, He will renew your strength. Think on good things. Confess that His peace is washing over you.As you embark on the journey back to your true self, the self that is immeasurably loved by God, the self that BELIEVES…do something…one foot in front of the other…that you didn’t think you could. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
In all things…give praise.
Praise your way through your difficulties.
Thanks for letting me know, Diana! I don’t know how to fix it. I lost all my followers when my old blog got bought out from under me too. It won’t let me put the old “follow me” icon on the new blog. Confused.
Good to see your smiley face on my page though!!! Thanks for tracking me down. xoxo
HI Mary,
Did you know that you are a NoReply when you leave a comment? I had to backlink twice ot find your blog again. It keeps dropping off my list- I think it is because of the Google Plus thing. I can’t seem to keep any of the Google+ blogs on my list. Weird. Anyway, hope you have a Blessed Sunday- xo Diana