I know how it feels when you think God has abandoned you. Many others know that feeling too. But even though we felt that way, it was not true. The Lord never left, He never abandoned and He never stopped His plans for your hopeful, purposeful, future.
Joseph, Jacob, David and even Jesus all had to go though that feeling. But those feelings, even overwhelming anxiety or despair, don’t change God’s plans. They don’t change His faithful and steadfast love for you. It is up to you to choose to believe God instead of your feelings - this is the walk of faith. Sometimes, these trials and hard times are lessons and sometimes they’re consequences and sometimes they are just the result of our broken world. Choose to trust God instead of your own heart to make it through!
”Trust God from the bottom of your heart;
don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! Honor God with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don’t, dear friend, resent God’s discipline; don’t sulk under his loving correction. It’s the child he loves that God corrects; a father’s delight is behind all this.“
Proverbs 3:5-12 MSG
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