PLEASE DO NOT GIVE UP!

I want to reach out to anyone reading this who feels profoundly hurt and believes that life is merely a cycle of sorrow filled with disappointment and despair. Before you take your next step, please listen to me for a moment.

Using myself as an example, I have taken my life's struggles, pains, disappointments, and failures and used them as a new lens to view life. Like you, I have experienced many letdowns, unexplainable hurts, broken promises, and relentless thoughts about the purpose of life.

There were moments when I thought praying was pointless, so much so that I even stopped (not something I recommend). But my friend, the challenges I encountered ultimately benefited me more than I ever expected. Like everything else, each issue, situation, and circumstance has its own duration. Yet, during these times, we often get conditioned to dwell on the negatives instead of seeing them as valuable lessons for future achievements. Looking back, I can genuinely express gratitude to God for every obstacle, every disappointment, and anything else I deemed unfair. With those challenges behind me, my outlook on life has transformed significantly. I've gained a deeper appreciation and understanding of life and why those moments were necessary for future development.

I beg you to consider this: the most detrimental error one could commit is surrendering or abandoning hope. By engaging in such actions, you are discarding the essential components that have been meticulously crafted and allowed by God to equip you for the breakthrough for which you are being prepared. This explains why God rarely informs folks of the details of their process. For example, can you imagine if God said to Joseph, "you will be second in command of Egypt, but before that happens, your brothers will hate you, you will be sold into slavery, you will be falsely accused of rape and thrown into prison for something you did not do?" I am sure he would have said, "I would love to be second in charge of Egypt, but if I have to go through all of that, forget it!" If you read Joseph's story carefully, every struggle he encountered literally prepared and led him to his God-ordained destiny.

Once more, I want to encourage you: DO NOT GIVE UP! DO NOT GIVE IN! When seen in the right light, your challenges are just temporary moments shaping you for something greater. You'll get your chance to take the lead, but it's important to remember that you're gaining valuable and necessary experience before your time to shine arrives.

The bottom line is that life will always seem difficult, sad, disappointing, and the like when one is being conditioned for change. You cannot enjoy or even handle what's awaiting your arrival with your current state of mind. In fact, your current state of mind is an enemy to your future! Hence, your challenges are preparing you to value and appreciate what has been reserved exclusively by God, just for you.

WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, JOY WILL COME IN THE MORNING, PSALMS 30:5

Kevin L A Ewing
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