God never promised life would be easy, but he did promise to be there and give you strength when it got hard. As humans, we all long for happiness, a feeling of security - a lot of times we go searching in the wrong places for that happiness we long for. And because it wasn't real happiness it faded away, and we find ourselves broken and hurt. It becomes a cycle. We have something that makes us happy - we lose it - were hurting, were broken - we find something else to make us happy - it fades away - were broken, were hurting.. etc. Only when we put 100% into God will we know what true happiness is. Don't lie to yourself, and believe what you want to believe. If your in a spot where your constantly hurting and you can't move, evaluate yourself, evaluate whats changed over the past few weeks and remove it. Our first instinct when told to remove something our flesh desires is no, but you NEED to die to your flesh and allow God to move in and change you. I've been struggling a lot with this, but what happens when you say no, is God takes his peace away. Because your no longer doing his will, and your following your flesh, he takes away his peace - and I don't know about you, but it hurts tremendously. It's a constant heartache, a constant feeling of emptiness. You can fill it for small amounts of times but the pain will always be there - that pain ALWAYS comes back because only Gods peace is meant to fill it, only GODS peace can take away that pain. Are you sick of that empty feeling? Are you tired of crying yourself to sleep every night? are you tired of faking a smile trying to get through the day? are you tired of the temporary high you feel? aren't you tired? I AM. Yesterday, at youth group, I was crying in the bathroom. An older lady walked in, and I apologized because I was a mess. She said, "Hunny don't apologize I was just doing that(crying)" she then did her business washed her hands, and right before she was about to leave she turned back and said I know I'm a complete stranger but I need to give you a hug. And as she's hugging me she had told me she had just given her life to Christ that night it took her 52 years, and that God will get us through our trial and tribulations, he'll give us strength - but a lot of it is on OUR CHOICES. And she was right...Do you want to be sad? - you choose it. Do you want God's peace? Whats more important to you? the temporary happiness or Gods peace? We all have to come to a place in our lives where we need to choose what we want. God and his peace? or your fleshly happiness but constantly feeling emptiness? God is waiting, he is patient, He's saying "Child, just look at me". So what are you going to do? are you going to look at him? Here's your first Choice. God bless.
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