Have you ever felt that God is distant? That He is standing at the edge of the universe just watching you, waiting to see how you will live your life, not really caring about the outcome. Sometimes God seems uncaring, unloving and unkind. You feel like He’s just an isolated Being setting on a throne in an unreachable, unapproachable heaven. Sometimes God seems far away.
When the situations and circumstances of your life are overwhelming and you feel you can’t go on or don’t even want to try… When your hopes are crushed, your dreams are dashed and the perfect world you lived in isn’t perfect anymore, when your life turns into an unending downward spiral, what do you do?
It’s easy to find yourself in the depths of despair, feeling sorry for yourself, resigned to your horrible fate. It’s much harder to figure out how you are going to escape the dungeon you find yourself locked in. The key is making friends with the gate-keeper. God holds the keys to death, hell and the grave. If you feel you can’t go on after the death of a loved one, you’re facing a hell you never imagined existed or are a walking dead person from the inside out, the solution is simple. The tragedies are taxing, testing, difficult and demanding but Jesus is not. He has planned each day of our lives and has the power to help us through the tough times. All we have to do is place our trust in him and learn to live in obedience, faith, love and joy. It’s easy to say, but lots harder to actually accomplish. However, when we finally decide that the time has come to cast off pretense and place ourselves completely in the palm of God’s hand, we’ll find that there is no better place to be. And even on the days when God seems far away, we can have faith, hope and the courage to live, just because of Jesus.