We will be troubled and tried.
We will be perplexed and confused as to why we have to experience what we experience.
We will be persecuted, sometimes by those who should love us most.
We will be cast down in society or our communities.
Life will be hard.
It is hard.
For some reason, I think we constantly need to remind ourselves of this.
It’s so easy to jump to:
“It’s not fair”
“What did I do to deserve this?”
But we are guaranteed that these hard times will come to us.
It’s okay to feel troubled, perplexed, persecuted, and cast down.
But, thanks to our loving Savior:
We do not need to feel distressed.
We need not despair.
We are not forsaken or forgotten.
We will not be destroyed.
Life is hard.
Really hard sometimes.
But we have our Good Shepherd with us.
He will not let the hard times destroy us if we turn to him.
We don’t have to be stressed out and in utter chaos.
We are not forgotten, ever!
Life is hard, but it doesn’t need to be miserable.
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
