some days waking up feels like a battle not because you're tired but because you already know how the day will go the same weight on your chest the same thoughts running in circles the same effort to keep going when you don't even know why people tell you to stay strong but they don't understand they don't feel what you feel they don't know what it's like to carry a sadness that doesn't just pass you try you really do but nothing seems to change it's a strange kind of pain the kind that doesn't scream it just lingers
quiet heavy you move through the world like a shadow watching people laugh love move forward while you're stuck in place pretending you're fine no one notices the weight you're carrying no one sees how hard it is just to exist to make it through another day but I tell you even the strongest in faith have shattered under hardships David cried out to God my soul is weary with sorrow strengthen me according to your word he knew loss he knew betrayal he wept through the night running for his life losing his closest friend burying a child and
yet he kept praying kept singing because even in the darkest Valley he knew God was still there job lost everything in a single moment his wealth his children his health he sat in the dust scraping his wounds his own wife telling him to curse God and die but job refused instead he said the lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord even in his suffering he held on to God and in the end God restored him grief is woven throughout scripture yet those who turned to God were never
abandoned and listen to me this is not the end of you your story does not stop here pain does not mean God has left you silence does not mean he isn't working David sang in his darkest nights job worshiped with nothing left Paul and Silas were beaten chained in a prison cell yet at midnight prayed and sang hymns to God because faith is not built in Comfort it's forged in fire so whatever you're facing cry if you need to mourn if you must but do not stop seeking him do not stop praising him because the
same God who walked with them through the fire is walking with you now the Bible says the Lord is close to the Brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit now you must understand God is God he sees beyond what you can he moves with purpose not impulse you ask for a way out but he builds you instead because the only way out is through what you call a delay is often discipline what you see as unanswered is often unseen protection because if he handed you strength abundance and comfort the moment you asked you
wouldn't have the character to sustain and value them power without ref M leads to ruin and before you know it you'd be back where you started so he doesn't just give whatever you ask in prayers instead you are made into the person who can carry the blessing that's why he allows struggle instead of handing you strength and gives you battles instead of instant Victory he's not just thinking about your now he's shaping what's ahead something far greater than you can comprehend but be aware do not let cynical thoughts take root for they will wage war
against the truth of God many have abandoned their faith in moments like this when prayers seem unanswered when pain lingered longer than expected their emotions took the lead convincing them God is absent this is when faith is tested and in the testing two paths emerge one walks away resentful hardened convinced God has forgotten them and the one who endures emerge unshaken forged in fire with a faith that nothing can break there is no strength like that of a Christian who refuses to break no resilience like the one forged in Fire and no endurance greater than
the one we follow Christ himself who stood unshaken through it all so don't seek comfort in temporary company don't numb the ache with distractions don't root your survival in temporary escapes turn fully to him not just in whispered prayers that never leave your mouth but in the depths of his word the Bible it's the voice of God waiting for you and when you open it you will find his promises
