Feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Ever have one of those days where bad news upon bad news along with the bad news from the week prior pile up on you all at once?

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. "(2 Cor. 4:8-9)

I know Satan always uses that "pile on" effect where he takes all the bad news he could possibly throw at your face and piles it on you when you feel a little weak or vulnerable. I had to remind myself that I don't need to be in despair. I don't have to have all the answers to all my questions. I don't have to understand why certain things happen the way they do. All I have to do is trust in Christ. When people I love fall away and make stupid decisions, when things happen that don't make any sense to me, when I feel alone in my walk with Christ- I am so thankful and glad to say that I can still rest in the peace and love of God. I don't have to be in despair because God never takes a vacation from being my helper and my comforter and my guide. Even when all else fails me, Christ stays the same. When I look at all problems in my life, whether it be my personal walk with Christ, or of those who I love around me, or even ones that unfairly-directly affect me, I have to be honest... I feel like crap. Sometimes I almost feel hopeless because I don't know all the answers to all these problems. Things start happening that I never dream would happen and I try my hardest to understand why- and I have no answers. And when I stare at the problems, I get so sad and almost depressed.

Lead me by your truth and teach me,for you are the God who saves me.All day long I put my hope in you. -Psalms 25:5

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan -Psalms 42:4-6

5 Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
for my hope is in him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress where I will not be shaken.- Psalms 62:5-6

My hope is in Christ! When the world fails me, when my closest loved ones fail me, when I don't have all the answers, when the secure things in my life start to fade and crumble, Christ is still my rock and my salvation! Christ is still my stronghold. And what I found so much comfort in, was that Christ is always and will always be MY HOPE. I need to hope in God. Though I feel down and sad, my soul will praise Him! Because when all else changes, He is the same!

Thank you Jesus =))))