The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18 NKJV
I recently wrote a post about our need for each other, about how our value of independence in our society may be the cause of the seeming increase in depression and suicide. One of the points that I make in that post is that the idea that, all I need is Jesus is not actually Biblical.
I still stand behind that statement. We are made to be social beings and to be dependent on each other. Though this is true there are times that, for whatever reason, we are not able to reach out to and depend on another human being.
It is in these times that we need to remember that God is always there!
I had the opportunity to learn this very early in life. When we were young my brothers and I lived with an abusive stepfather. There are a lot of stories I could tell about that time but there is one that has always stuck out to me. I wrote more about this story in an early blog post of mine called A Light in the Darkness.
There was a period of time, I am not sure how long, in which he locked us up in our rooms and put black tarp o er the windows and around the doors in order to block out all light. In our society it is very rare for us to experience true darkness but my brothers and I did in that room. There was literally nothing for us to do except sit and wait.
It was in that room that God met me for the first time.
The skeptic would say that I was a kid in trauma reaching out for what little hope I could find. But all I can say is I know what I experienced. God met me in that room. God kept me sane in a time where I could have easily lost all hope.
I don't know where you are at as you read this post. Maybe you are in a place where you feel like no one can understand you, or there's no one to reach out to. Let me tell you, from the experience of a young boy in a pitch black room with no idea of when he would see light again, God is always there to reach out to. Jesus is always there.
God promised that he will never leave and I know that promise to be true.
If you need to cry out to God but don't feel like you have the strength to then please message me or someone else who can do it for you.
Even if you don't reach out I am praying for each person that reads this that God would meet you in a real way, a way that you can not explain away, the exact way that you need Him to right now.
