Sadness

What do you do when you are sad? Do you feel sorry for yourself and sit around doing nothing? Do you get up and do something...anything so you can just feel less sad? Do you give yourself a pep talk to get out of the funk? Do you cry? Do you blame others for your sadness?

Do you take it out on the ones you love the most? Do you put others down so you might feel better about yourself? Do you just lash out and get angry?

If you are female do you just blame it on "Hormones"? If you are male do you blame "Work"?

If you proclaim that you are a Christian what should you do? As Christians we know we are supposed to take it to the Father and let it go. How? How do we do that?

I know the standard answers...read your Bible, pray, do for others...

But...why is it so hard?

Maybe it is the pressures and expectations we put on ourselves. Maybe we are allowed to just feel sad for a while. I imagine that God is sad sometimes. He is our Father and we rebel against him. He is our creator and we think we can do it ourselves. He knows all and we think we know better. He loves us so much and we forget about him in the busyness of our lives. He has the answers but we don't listen. Can you imagine his sadness over us?

When bad things happen we need to remember who created the universe and all that is in it. We need to remember that Satan has dominion over this earth.
We need to remember that Satan does not have dominion over God's children even on this earth.

When Adam and Eve first sinned there were eternal consequences. God is not "up in heaven holding marionette like strings, orchestrating who gets what and when". He is right here with each and every Christian holding us up through the trials and troubles. We just need to remember that He is with us. He will never leave us. He allows us to go through pain and trouble to grow us into the godly men and women he desires us to be.

Hold on to your faith. Keep on keeping on...

1 Timothy 1:18-20

¹⁸This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight,

¹⁹keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.

²⁰Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.