Day 13 - Spiritual Breakthrough
Your weaknesses and inadequacies make themselves known to you again and again. You can’t always count on other people, and you can’t count on yourself. No human being can meet all your needs, especially your deepest needs.
“We are living in a broken world,” states Barbara Johnson. “We see broken marriages, broken people, broken lives. There’s never going to come a time when we’ve got it all together.”
She continues, “As you go through grief, as you center your focus on what is ahead of you as a Christian, that helps you to know that what you’re going through isn’t going to last. You have to take a day at a time. Tomorrow may be different. Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, but today is cash. You’ve got today to serve the Lord.”
You are at a point where you need to decide whom you will lean on, trust, and put your hope in. Now is the time to search God’s Word and hold on to this lifeline. God will meet you where you are, at your point of pain. Seek Him, talk to Him, and learn about Him. He is the only way out of despair.
“But the eyes of the LORD are on … those whose hope is in his unfailing love. … We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. … May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you” (Psalm 33:18, 20, 22).
Lord God, help me to lean on You, trust You, and put my hope in You. I need the lifeline of Your Word. Amen.