Hopelessness

"My God, my God why have you forsaken me?"

These were the words spoken by Jesus as he died on the cross. In a moment on the brink of death the Son of Man, with all the weight of sin upon him, finished in a moment of being Lost.

This a very significant picture that Christians look over most of the time. A child of God's walk is a long and sometimes painful road to follow. And at times you just get so tired and so accustomed to the same walk over and over that you feel like God isn't present in your life. When your life feels like it is crashing down on you, you ask "where is God?" You feel like he has drawn you near then abandoned you. For some reason or another, you feel like you've lost your intimacy with your Father.

I wonder if this is how Jesus felt on that fateful hour. I sometimes ask myself, did Jesus feel separated from his Father?

As a Christian, you have to ask yourself a question: did Jesus come to die, or did he come to live? If your answer is anything different than that he came to die, you should seriously take a closer look at what you believe. You see if we think Jesus came to live, we try to hold ourselves to Jesus as a standard. We say that if we can be like Jesus we'll get to heaven. When we do this we set ourselves up for failure, no one can live up to the standard that Jesus set. However, when we truly believe that Jesus came on this earth to die, he becomes our savior and has redeemed us for not being able to become blameless.

Jesus gives us the ability to have a bad day. He allows us to be forgiven for dry spells in our walk. He forgives us when we dwell in sin and are weak. Mother Teresa once was asked about some of her dark times and troubles. They asked, "where do you think God was in all these troublesome times?' She simple replied, "I don't know."

You see God is above us, and if doesn't want to show himself to us he doesn't have to. A lot of Christians struggle when they're facing hard times because they feel like God has abandoned them. When really he never leaves. No one knows why he doesn't show up, but I think he is testing our hearts and conditioning us so that when he does show up in our lives it is so much sweeter and fulfilling.

So don't be afraid to have a bad day or feel like God has forgotten about you. Just know that he has redeemed you and he is always with you.