I can really say today in a long time, I feel free. Although I have a lot of challenges and problems weighing against me, I finally feel hopeful. Situations of the past and present can alter our vision. When we only see and experience suffering, we'll begin to believe this is how life is going to be for the rest of our lives. Not too long ago, I was feeling this way about my life. I felt a bit stuck and I had lost my joy; totally lost my joy. There were mornings when I didn't want to get up and in some cases (I'm being real), I didn't want to live. I felt like nothing in my life was going to change. You see, it was more than having money in my pocket or being a father of my own biological children; it was seeing God's promises come to pass for my family. One of the problems I have within myself is waiting on God. Obviously, I'm not a woman but I truly understand what Hannah went through. She was ridiculed by Penninah about not having children while she had multiple children. Everyday, this issue felt like it was laughing in her face. This is how it is for some of us who have yet to see God's promises manifest in our lives. As I've said in many of my daily blogs, we're living in a time when a lot of us are giving up on God. We feel like He has forgotten about us and what He promised us. We feel abandoned and sort of like fatherless children. However, we need to wake up and smile the hot white chocolate mocha from Starbucks (one of the best joys in the world). God hasn't forgotten us, none of us, because He made and created us. Before we were in our mother's womb, He made up and planned an awesome life for us in spite of the struggles it will bring. I truly believe that a better tomorrow is on the way we just need to believe and dream again. There are many of us committing suicide, not only literally but spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. We've given up because we gave into those thoughts coming in our heads saying what's the use. The better tomorrow is something that presidents, or political parties, or money, or a one night stand with 6 model chicks can't give us. This better tomorrow, the destiny we have been formed for is only found in Jesus Christ. Yeah, I know a lot of us have heard this and some of us think that Jesus is a bunch of rubbish. Maybe many of us feel that way because people who say they're Christians lived otherwise. Maybe it's from high profile rappers dissing Christianity or other media pulls got us thinking Jesus is a man who is nonexistent living in the sky. But I truly believe He is real and no matter who we are, He has a better tomorrow planned for us. My friends, mankind is experiencing the darkest hours ever known. Don't be fooled by all the glitz and glamour of technology, food, material things at our fingertips. The worst dark ages ever known to man is here and many of us are stuck in its abyss. Deep down inside of us, there lies a thing called purpose and destiny crying out daily to be found. However, we ignore it because we're so caught in the mess with messy people. However, the light is shining brighter than ever before and once we take a glimpse at it, it's going to change our lives forever. Before I close this thing out, I'd like to share the renewed hope I'm receiving from my Daddy today. If you're going through a situation when your spouse is wanting a divorce but you remember the promises of God over your marriage; then expect a better tomorrow. If God promised your family that He would make your name great and use you for a particular task; expect a better tomorrow. If you know that you are supposed to have children but the doctors say you can't have it; expect a better tomorrow. If God said to you that if you continue to pray for your nation especially when it's in a bad moral state; expect a better tomorrow. The key principle of this better tomorrow is that God is the central focus and that He has made an impossible situation with men possible with Him. In closing, let me quote the words of Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 29:11:
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
Don't give up on God just yet. Though our eyes don't see Him working some things out for us, don't give up. Understand?
Til next time, dgwo.
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