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Arguably the toughest question anyone can ask is 'How do I find Jesus in the
middle of my hurt and loneliness?' And this was asked to me by a very dear
friend and when I heard it I was stumped because yes I have been blessed a lot
with beautiful family and so many things and so much in my life that I'm able to
do thanks to God's grace... I have also faced a lot of hurt and loneliness that
has made me just want to collapse into myself hide in a corner and completely
lose hope in that moment let me tell you for someone who is completely about the
hope of Jesus and how amazing life is with him for someone like that to lose
hope it feels a really really dark and so I can tell you firsthand that if I
were to look at Jesus through this lens of my heart and loneliness I would I
wouldn't go anywhere near him I wouldn't be able to see him and and here's why
it's because what hurt and loneliness does is it isolates you it's the same
way a turtle retreats into its shell and when a turtle's inside its shell it's
gonna take a lot for it to come out and look at the light again because it
doesn't trust the outside there's this really beautiful verse I want to share
with you it's from Romans 8 verse 26 and it says the Spirit also comes to help us
weak as we are for we do not know how we ought to pray the Spirit Himself pleads
with God for us in groans that words cannot express this verse is telling me
something really amazing it says that prayer which is actually the simplest
thing any believer can do just talk to God this verse is saying that we don't
even know to do that we're so weak and so far from the wisdom
of God that we don't have the first clue of knowing what we are feeling and how we
ought to pray to the Father in heaven who made us and it makes sense I mean if
we were to create a robot even with all the high technology
and mind-reading abilities it's not the same as a human talking to a human so it
makes sense that we wouldn't really know how to appropriately converse with God
especially in moments when we are weak as ugh
so when the Spirit of God is
allowed into this equation it rightly changes the question from 'how do I' into
'how can God show Jesus to me?'
okay because through this verse we can see
that we are highly incapable of helping ourselves we cannot even ask for help we
can't even pray for help we're that incapable and so we need to just allow the Spirit
of God to help change this thing entirely on its head
so when we are in
pain we can't expect ourselves to find Jesus okay because all you're gonna do
is end up beating yourself with questions like why am i not praying
enough or why I'm not able to concentrate on God enough why can't I
read my Bible these kind of questions that just make you feel you're not good
enough and it further makes you retreat into your shell what we need to do first
is acknowledge this all is way beyond you
we are pretty amazing human beings, I'll give us that, but there are so many
experiences that we alone cannot deal with
once you acknowledge your weakness
acknowledge God's strength so now the burden isn't on you to find Jesus or to
get help
shift your focus go to a hill look down a valley see the greatness of
God not the greatness of your pain and I'm gonna give you another verse to help
it's in Psalms 55 verse 22 which says throw your burden upon the Lord and He
will take care of you you will never allow the righteous to be shaken now
it doesn't say the righteous are unshakeable or they are not able to carry burdens we
carry burdens all the time and all the time we are shaken what it's saying is
throw your burden upon the Lord and then the Lord will not allow you to be shaken
this burden is the thing that is shaking you and
He's saying child give it to me it's made for me not you I didn't make you with the
ability to carry this burden I'm here to help you and you need to give this
burden to me if you want that help but how exactly do you go about this you
stop blaming yourself stop thinking - if you hadn't done this
this would have happened - if you hadn't said this he wouldn't have said that - if you
had just been more careful then you could have averted this danger or that
situation would have never happened - you're so lonely because you never allowed anyone
in - stop it. Just stop doing everything on your own
understand this the act of throwing is way ahead letting go I have let go
plenty of times let's let go something okay I let go
this but it's right here I can pick it back up and I let go again
and I'm fine and I'm free but as soon as a moment of vulnerability comes it's right
here throwing means you gather everything throw it
way out of your reach
into the arms of God
okay it's not throwing to someone who can then backfire it upon you or it's not
throwing into some kind of weird twisted river which will give it back to you
with its waves not river that would be an ocean
the truth is nothing can
handle this burden except God and you need to throw it to him and he will deal
with it he will not just carry it but he's gonna deal with it in a way that it
needs to be dealt with in a way that you cannot it's a great advantage I think
that we get to throw our burden to God and we don't have to carry it believe me
it's much easier saying it than actually doing it
I've taken years to throw some
of my burdens forget let go but to actually throw it away it's it's really
tough but you need to realize this burden is not meant for you it's not meant to
be something that you should keep bothering yourself with and it keeps
stunting your growth and yes we have wounds and we have hurt and pain that
doesn't just go once you've thrown away your burden okay the scars remain still
pricks now and then memories especially really hard to erase
but here's the thing we are not alone we're not dealing with this burden alone and that
makes all the difference in the world and once you have finally used all your
strength and energy to expel this thing from you then you can see Jesus he's
right there holding your burden like a tame little puppy for us these burdens
are like huge monsters crushing us every day but for him
well...He's our God, He knows
how to deal with our problems okay
He's been dealing with us so
and now since
you've given Jesus the responsibility of taking care of you he can finally
finally prove to you how his strength is made perfect in your weakness
I know this is
a lot to swallow it's it's easy to say and it's hard to do but it's infinitely
better than being constantly stuck in this hurt and loneliness I hope this
helped you feel free to email me at the email that I've given in the description
below I'm Vihan Damaris on serious Sundays signing off
and I'll see you tomorrow on Mraculous Mondays
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okay fine bye.