God's Promises When We – Feel Despair
When we find ourselves in a
seemingly hopeless situation with no foreseeable remedy, whether it
be because of our ill health, or financial difficulties, or
personal, family, or moral issues, we tend to fall into an abyss of
dark discouragement from which there seems to be no escape. This is
where Satan would like to have us imprisoned where he can taunt us
with morbid thoughts, and cause us to doubt the love and protection
of our heavenly Father. When we allow ourselves to be confined to
this prison of despair, we tend to accuse God for mistreating us,
and blame those around us for our adverse circumstances.
When we allow ourselves to fall
into a state of despair, we are turning our back on God and
contradicting his covenant with his children, to supply all our needs
according to his riches in glory.
When we see discouragements approaching
which could drag us down deep into the pits of despair, we need to
remind ourselves, and ask ourselves this question – If God so loved
us that he gave his son to die for us to save us from hell, will he
not also give us freely and provide for all our need as we ask,
believe, and receive, whether it be for our health, finances, the
salvation of love ones or for other problems?
God has promised to meet our every
need. He admonishes us to ask, believe, and receive his blessings,
and continue to walk in his light, as he is the light of the world.
We never need to be ashamed of our hope, as long as we are hiding
ourselves in God. God's law is our hiding place.
“Uphold me according to thy word
that I may live and not be ashamed of my hope.” Psalm 119: 116.
God promises to revive the spirit of
the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite ones. “For thus
saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is
Holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.”Isaiah 57: 15.
God tells us not to cast away our
confidence in him. “Cast not away, therefore, your confidence
which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of
patience, that after you have done the will of God ye shall receive
the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will
come and will not tarry.” Hebrews 10: 35, 36, 37
We have a treasure within us –
the Holy Spirit, who provides the power for us to accomplish all that
God asks us to accomplish. We may be troubled, but with God in us,
we cannot be destroyed. “But we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not in
us. We are troubled on every side, yet not destroyed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor 4: 7,8
With God with us we need not succumb to
despair, for with God we can overcome and accomplish great things.
Nothing is impossible with God.
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