Help! My Life Is Falling Apart
Do you have that knot in your stomach?
Do you have that feeling in your mind of unsettledness and you're uncertain of the future and that's led to worry and concern?
Are you having problems in your work, at home, in your marriage?
Do you feel like all the relationships in your life, or at least some of the most important ones, are somehow devolving into chaos and everything just feels unsettled and it keeps going on and on and the pressure keeps intensifying and it gets worse and worse and you are at a breaking point.
You're at a desperation point.
You're thinking to yourself, I don't know what to do. I don't understand why any of this is happening.
Well, brothers and sisters, if you are close to God and you're getting closer to God through your ordeal, then this is to be expected. The Bible refers to this, the New Testament refers to this, over and over as a tribulation.
That gut punch, that moment when it feels like you can't catch your breath and it just goes on and on and on and it creates that exasperation, that anxiety, that need for relief that just doesn't come.
The bank account never seems to have the right amount of money in it. The problems at work keep compounding.The people around you are constantly just creating conflict in some way, shape, form, or manner.
Peter tells us that if you're a Christian who is seeking God, if you're a Christian who is drawing closer to him, that you should expect bad things to happen. You should expect difficulties. You should expect challenges. You should expect trials. You should expect tribulations of the worst kind.
In 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 12, this is what the apostle says, "Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you."
As if some strange thing were happening to you. It's not strange. The closer to heaven on earth we get, the more the fiery ordeals happen to us.
The more the world looks at us like, you just think you're a goody two-shoes, don't you? You just think you're special, don't you? You just think you're better than me, don't you?
No, not at all. I just think I'm blessed. I just think that God has honored me.
I just think that the closer I get to God, the more I know him. The more I can get through whatever challenge it is that I'm going through. Whatever the pain is, whatever the suffering I'm enduring is, God is with me.
In today's video, I want to dive into what this idea of "blessing" is in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus uses two ideas to start the Beattitudes... Pour in spirit and mourning.
This may be what you're going through right now, and you don't know why or what to do. I have some thoughts to share with you that will encourage you. Watch the YouTube video…