Isnt it funny how certain people, probably unknowingly, totally and completely make you feel discouraged! I'm the type of person that gets her feelings hurt pretty easily. I try super hard to block discouraging and hurtful things with my outer shell and I do somewhat of a good job pretending that it's allll goood. but deep under my shell I'm a softy! often times I feel betrayed and then I retreat into my tatered shell, the only thing that saves me. How can it save me if it's been beaten so many times?
I wonder if those certain people know that the devil is using them to break my faith? I wonder if the devil has ever used me to tear down someone's hope.
The best thing I can do is stand on the truth and that truth tells me not to be afraid or discouraged and that the Lord God is always with me. The truth also tells me that He knows the plans He has for me and that its plans for good and not for evil. Those plans will give me a future and a hope! How awesome is that!
As for me, I look to the Lord for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me. do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though i fall, I will rise again. though i sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. micah 7:7-8
Rest in knowing that there is a God who is alive and He loves you.
