This weekend was a very interesting one. I learned a lot, about life, about myself, and I saw and understood my feelings more clearly than I usually do. I’m currently going through, and have been for some time, a whirlwind of family and personal issues. My emotions have been all over the place from anger and frustration to deep sadness. More than anything, I’ve been wrestling with a question that keeps rising to the surface:
“Am I doing okay, God? Am I following your will and trusting You?”
One thing I’ve come to realize through my struggles, especially over the past few months and the last five years, is that there’s no perfect strategy for handling the hardships life throws at us. There’s no “right answer” and no one truly knows the battles we face in our minds and hearts… no one except one:
The Creator and the Ancient of Days – God.
There’s something deeply comforting about knowing that the God who created the universe knows my name, knows my pain, and walks with me through it all. God loves me on my best days and He loves me just as much on my worst. He doesn’t look at me and say, “This again? Really? Get it together or I’m out.”
No. He reminds us in Deuteronomy 31:6 and Hebrews 13:5 that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
That’s not just a hope, that’s a God-promise.
And when God makes a promise, He keeps it. He always has. He always will.
If you’re struggling, if it feels like the storms in your life just won’t stop raging, I encourage you:
Lean into God’s promises.
Find a few. Write them down. Speak them over your heart until your soul can’t help but sing His praises.
I pray that as you do, you will begin to believe, truly believe, that you are loved, seen, and cared for by a God who never gives up on you.
And if you think your life is too messy, too broken, too far gone for Him to care, remember this:
The same ocean you feel like you’re drowning in is the very storm He would cross just to reach you.
Take heart.
Hold fast to His promises.
Rejoice in your suffering, for God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness.
I’m praying for you.
You will get through this.
God is working in and through your struggles, and this season will end. Be sure of that.
I’ll leave you with a verse that has been stamped on my heart and carried me through many storms:
2 Corinthians 4:17
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
The Quiet Scroll 
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