Have you ever thought your world was falling apart? What was it like?
In moments like these, God gives us a promise to cling to.
“God is our refuge and strength, and ever present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth giveaway in the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.” Psalm 46:1-2 Here is God’s promise to those whose life is falling apart. First, God promises a shield for your soul. When life’s storms rage, He becomes a safe refuge where no earthly chaos can touch your soul.
You may be walking through trauma: the pink slip at work, a doctor’s diagnosis you never wanted to hear, a home shaken by conflict, or the invisible weight of depression. God protects your inner being. “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I’ve committed unto Him until that day.”
God protects you and he offers you help. Often, His help comes through people He sends into your life — a friend’s prayer, a neighbor’s kindness, a word at just the right time. He will give you hope of His coming Kingdom. Yes, heaven is for the believer. No matter what others may do to us, we hold on to a sure reality: one day sorrow will cease, tears will dry, death will be no more, and this broken world will give way to God’s eternal Kingdom.
He gives us the Holy Spirit to grant us comfort. The word “comfort” comes from two roots: “com” meaning “with,” and “fortis” meaning “strength.” His comfort enables you, strengthens you, and He is with you always. He will not leave you alone.
He gives hope. Biblical hope is nothing like the flimsy “maybe” hope we hear in everyday speech. The world offers “hope” that is a maybe, could be, might be. We use it as in “I hope I win the lottery” or “maybe I could win the Publishers House Sweepstakes.”
The world’s version of hope often deceives and disappoints. I once had called me saying she saw my name on there Publishers House list she was so excited her pastor was going to become rich. I once had a woman call me, breathless with excitement, convinced my name was on the Publisher’s Clearing House list — certain her pastor was about to become rich. Of course it was a scam. I felt sorry for an older lady who was being taken in with the scams the world offers.
And we have prayer that gives help. Imagine peeking into heaven for just a moment — what would you see? There is Jesus interceding for you. Answers from heaven come in four ways. Sometimes His answer is “no.” Other times it’s “go.” At times it’s “slow” — the moment isn’t right. And often, it’s “grow” — your heart isn’t ready yet.
Hebrews 7:25, which states He is able to “save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them,” and Romans 8:34, which says, “Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us”.
Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Though your world falls apart, though the mountains crumble into the sea…God is there to protect and to help you.
When your world falls apart. Run to Jesus. Run to Jesus.
