Sunday – Poetry

Reading – Job 7-8

Highlight Verse:

““My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.”
‭‭Job‬ ‭7‬:‭6‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Auto-correct keeps changing Job to Jim or Jon – whichever it feels like in the moment. It can’t seem to handle Job. (Of course, it didn’t change it in that paragraph.)

To be honest, sometimes I have a hard time dealing with Job too.

It is natural for us humans to not want to face anything to do with depression.

It’s not comfortable.

But it is real.

And Job had it bad.

Of course, he had good reason to be depressed. He lost everything and was in physical pain as well.

You don’t have to lose everything to feel the effects of depression.

When our thoughts turn away from hope, it doesn’t take much to push them over the edge into depression.

For some, brain chemistry plays a significant role as well.

I’m here to say that, even when the valley or depression is so deep, there is no light of hope to be seen,

hope is still there.

It may be a long struggle to get out of the valley to where you can see that hope, but Jesus is always available to help you as much as you will let Him.

He can give you the strength to make that climb, even holding you up when you stumble.

Even when Job couldn’t see it, hope was there. Take a peek at the end of the book if you don’t believe me.

Then rest in that hope.

When have you been in hopeless situations and how did you get out?
Are you in need of hope now? Let us lift you up in prayer to the Author of hope.