You have this perfect life planned for yourself; the perfect career, the perfect spouse, the perfect children, the perfect bank account, the perfect house and at least two cars, the perfect circle of friends and then the perfect retirement. My greatest lesson in life is, that life doesn’t always go as we planned. There’s a 99.9% chance you are living in a fantasy land and if you have attained this “perfect” life; you must be living in a bubble.
But let me speak today to those who live in the real world. Your life didn’t go exactly as you planned, maybe not even close. But because you didn’t get that perfect life doesn’t mean you can’t live an happy and fulfilling life. John 16:33(NIV) “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world”. Jesus knew that we would all, no exceptions, no respect of persons; have to face many hardships, disappointments, discouragements, failures, mistakes, loss, etc. No matter what we are facing today, God loves us and cares about what happens to us. He is right by our side; Hebrews 13:5 (NIV) “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you”.
Today we are facing one of the biggest trials of our lives. The fate of our lives is literally in someone else’s hands and there’s not a thing we can do about it but wait. I never dreamed we would end up in such a dead end. It’s even harder to put on an happy face and pretend that everything is ok, when in reality, deep down inside; we know it’s not. But I have no choice but to put my trust in a God that cannot fail (And in all honesty that is a very hard thing to do). It’s like your life “lies in the balance”. It can go either way. But I have to believe that God; He knows what He’s doing.
I’m telling this in hopes that I can help someone else who are dealing with their own struggles, you have reached a dead end and you don’t know where else to turn. Then turn to the one who knows what He’s doing. He knows best, He knows the plans He has for us. So let’s trust and believe together. There is nothing that God cannot do; He is the God of the impossible. So if we think we are at a dead end and there is no hope left, then think again! God loves us so much, that He gave His only Son to die for us, to die for me, to die for you. It doesn’t matter what you have done, where you’ve been, how broken you are; GOD LOVES YOU!
If you are thinking, “man all I need is another preacher”. Well sorry, I’m certainly not a preacher but I speak from my heart, my soul, from my life experiences and I tell you there have been many. I have been broken many times, at a dead end many times, so I have been there. I know what I’m talking about, I have lived it. But be
encouraged, we can overcome; we are more then conquerors, Romans 8:31-39
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.