What happens when the darkness closes in on you and doesn’t go away?
What do you do when your prayers seem unanswered and needs go unmet?
What if when we pray it doesn’t seem to help at all?
What if we call out to Jesus and hear nothing and wonder if He even remembers our name?
How do you go on when you’ve lost your will to live?
Who do you turn when it seems the God you knew seems to no longer exist within?
Where do we find Jesus when the light hides its face and darkness seems to stay?
What do we do when we think Love Himself has turned His face away?
What if the life we knew seems to not exist anymore and we no longer think it can be saved?
Can we cope when hopelessness has moved in and seems to stay?
Sometimes nothing helps and it all seems too much to bear.
Sometimes the only voice we have is the one that groans in pain.
Does that mean we’ve lost our faith and we’ll never be the same?
What do you do when death is closing in?
You cry.
You whale,
You scream.
You curse.
You breath.
You exist.
You live.
Sometimes that’s all you’ve got to give.
And what if by some miracle the darkness starts to lift and truth starts to light the way?
Does that mean we have to start over? No.
Do we have to find our way back home? No.
Do we have to crawl back to Jesus? No.
Should we feel broken and ashamed? No.
No.
It means we’re stating to get better.
It means we might be ok.
It means what was always true is still true:
That He was always there.
That He never left us.
That We never left Him.
That things are going to be ok.
He is right there walking the lonely path with us.
There’s nothing we have to do to earn our way back.
He loves us just the same.
Eventually the light will come out again and slowly you’ll find yourself living again.
One day you’ll wake up in the morning and look back and see that He was faithful. That He IS faithful.
You’ll see that He’s still the same God who sees us and loves us.
He was always right inside us.
We will feel the light start to rise within us and we will watch and marvel at how the sun rises over the horizon.
We will start to see Jesus again and we will eventually heal enough to realize He never left us.
We’ll look back and see Him and realize it was He that sustained.
He was there helping, holding, carrying.
Eventually we will start to believe again…
He’s still loving.
He’s still faithful.
He’s still good.
Even when we can’t see it.
Even when we can’t feel it.
Even when we’ve forgotten.
He’s still the same.
The Hope Giver.
The Way Maker.
The Wounded Healer.
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