This word below is an understatement. I have been there in that place so many times. I even one day after a hopeless situation hit and I cried until I was tired, call my mama and said mama why do things keep happening to me am I bad person? In my mind I was living right, working for God and doing what I thought He required. My mama said no you are not a bad person there are somethings about everybody that can be changed but she reminded me that God said it would rain on the just and unjust. I thanked her and ended the call. You see it wasn't what I wanted to hear. Because it seemed like the attack the troubles all came at once out of no where and I wrecked my brain tirelessly trying to figure out God what have I done. At that time my husband was saved but not going to church like I was so I blamed it on him, saying that I was being caugt up in his punishment. He didn't like me saying that and he was right I shouldn't have said it. Next the blame went to my kids and then my friends, everybody but me. Why because in my mind I was doing everything God wanted me to do. By the time that trial was over we relished in the quiet for a little while and here came another. At that point I was like Jesus just take me outta here I can't handle nothing else. I looked over my life again and I had nobody to blame we were all going to church every Sunday and seemed to be happy. So what gives? Things calmed and all was right with the world and we woke up one moring to Katrina, at that point I went into a depression but I didn't know I was depressed. It was then that God really did a great work in me, and here I am today. Saved, sold out and filled with the HOLY SPIRIT. Is everything all roses; Lord no. Why, because God said many are the afflictions of the righteous BUT GOD delivers from them all. It is now that I look back and all those years ago when I realized that I have always had troubles, when I looked and saw that I was professing to be the sold out one but my husband had more faith than me and enough for the both us, that I just started to stop worrying trust GOD and breath. You see in every dark situation there is a ray of light and that ray of light is the ray of hope we need to know that this storm too shall pass. Blessed to Be a Blessing, Shon Garner Cole Follow my blogs at realtalkwithshon@blogspot.com or twitter @imda4given1 |
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We all know what it feels like to experience hopelessness to varying degrees. In fact, many people define hope as looking forward to something that they know that they will never get. Hopelessness is when you look out in front of you and you can't see any possibility for improvement or change. Many of us today are drowning in a sea of hopelessness surrounded by a land of emptiness where there seems to be no way out.
That reminds me of a story. In the summer of 2000, a Russian Oscar II Class Submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea due to an internal explosion. Divers made several attempts to go down and assess the situation to determine if anyone had survived. When they were finally successful, they discovered a group of twenty-three men who had survived the explosion. These men had gone back as far as they could to the end of the submarine, and had gathered together in the last remaining pocket of air.
But the rescue team hadn't made it to them in time. All twenty-three men had died. On the inside wall of the submarine, they found this note that had been etched there by the Captain-lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikova. It said, "It's dark here to write, but I'll try by feel. It seems like there are no chances..."
The hopelessness we hear in Dmitri's words has been shared by many of us. We've all faced similar feelings at some time or another where there seems "like there are no chances." Hopelessness in the middle of life's storms is a human experience that is common to most of us.
It's one thing to be in the middle of a trial that has been brought on by yourself through a bad choice or action. But it's an entirely different thing to set your heart on serving God only to discover that it seems He has abandoned you in the middle of a storm. In times like those, remember that although God may be silent, He is not still. Wait on Him. He may just come walking to you on top of your storm.
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