4 Powerful Reminders When Life Gets Overwhelming by Amanda Casanova l Inspiring Thoughts

Maybe it’s a normal work week for you. You turn off your alarm clock and wipe your eyes. You pour your coffee and hit the road for work. You turn on the radio and drive.

Then that normal week goes awry. Maybe at a red light, another car bumps you from behind. Nobody’s hurt, but it makes you late and now you have to deal with getting your car fixed. Maybe you lose a contract at work. Maybe your husband calls you at lunch and tells you there’s a leak in the dining room and the floor is ruined. Maybe life is getting a little hard.

When little things go wrong, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. You may feel as if you’ve taken two steps forward, only to take three steps back, so how do we respond when things go wrong?

What We’re Promised

Being a Christian does not mean we get an easy life. It doesn’t mean we get an automatic miracle when things go wrong. For many non-believers, it’s easy to point to trouble in our lives and say that is proof that there is no God, but God never said we were meant to live perfect, carefree lives.

What we are promised, however, is help from God to push through the trouble. God wants us to show grace and strength through those situations to be able to show others that we are faithful and that we serve a God that holds onto us no matter what. Even faithful men and women in the bible were faced with heartache, and they clung to the promise that God would never leave them in their pain.

What You’re Doing Right

Sometimes life just beats us down. Sometimes, Murphy’s Law follows us for what seems like weeks. Sometimes we just can’t seem to get ahead, and there seems to be no reason for the storms. Often times, people will say “that’s just life.”

It’s important to remember that when things go wrong, it’s not a punishment. Instead, it’s a reminder that you’re doing something right, so right that Satan is trying to knock you down. Many people complain that when they started going back to church, bad things happened to them, and that is a sure sign that you are a threat to Satan and he will try to turn you from your faith. Satan interferes with us when we desperately seek the Lord.