happysad “How ya doin?”

Three little words is all it takes sometimes to turn a quiet, contemplative moment into three hours of venting frustration and shouting to the rooftops about this problem or that.

We all have problems, and usually they are person-specific. As Christians we have the benefit of belonging to a support group that helps us work through our issues and grow as children of God.

This week we’re looking at the simple question “How ya doin?”

Maybe you’re not feeling very useful right now. Maybe you feel all alone. Maybe you feel like every day is bad and there’s no end to the struggles in sight. Maybe you feel abandoned by God or maybe you just feel like running away.

Feelings like that happen to us all. There’s little we can do to avoid having those negative thoughts pop in our brain. What we can do is keep the right state of mind, have a little perspective and a healthy dose of trusting in God and we can limit the amount of time we dwell on such negativity.

So…how ya doin?

“I feel alone.”

Read this:

 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

1 John 3:1-2

John says that, as children of God, the world does not know us. It doesn’t understand us, because the people of the world haven’t made the commitment to Christ that Christian’s have. People in the world live for themselves. We are dead; we live for Christ (Colossians 3:1-3).

So in that sense we ARE alone. We are vastly outnumbered by a world of sinners bound for the lake of fire.

But of course we AREN’T actually alone. God is with us. Our brethren are with us. We have a family in Christ that is bound for eternal paradise one day.

It’s easy to let things pile up and to let problems persist but remember that you belong to a community and that you have a spiritual support group ready to help whatever the need may be. You may feel alone every now and then, but there’s no reason to when you wear the name of Christ.

 

Think about it,
have a great day