if you don’t know darkness, you’ll never know the value of light.
God never gives us more than he knows we can handle.so be thankful.
God is with us in our darkness, and he is with us in our joy.
he is our joy; he is our love; he is our hope.You don’t hold onto your faith, your faith holds on to you. You do not hold onto God. God holds onto you. I think the point of our struggles is not that we are strong enough to fight and survive alone. It’s not a test of our faith to see if we have the willpower to chose God when everything in this world screams at us to chose despair, bitterness, anger, loneliness, and disbelief. Struggles are not a cruel experiment to see if you can keep holding on. Struggles illuminate the fact that we cannot hold on. We let go. And it is there, in our weakness, brokenness, exhaustion, and pain that God is ever present. That Jesus says give me your burdens and I will simply give you peace in return. It is there. You will not be alone, you will not drown, you will not be burned. Why? Because you held on for dear life? Because somehow you were able to make it yourself in the midst of your pain? No. Because you have been redeemed by a God who knows you, loves you, and basically says… let go. Because He says, when the fire hits, I will be there to shield you. When the water is raging around you and you are holding onto the branch for dear life and it snaps…You will not drown. There will be a life raft.
Not because you made it but because God values you, loves you, and cares so deeply for you, for me, for us that He has never abandoned humanity. He is with us. Wake up each morning and get out of bed and choose life. Time and time again endure because at the end of the day, when you can no longer fight, can no longer keep it together, can longer hang on, Someone is there to catch you. Let go. And the mysterious presence of God finds them, surrounds them, holds them up, and brings peace into their despair.you are not alone. you are beautiful. you are loved. you are important, and your voice matters. people may not listen, but your words have a place in this life.
