Distressed...

Have you ever been utterly distressed? So completely heartbroken that sorrow took hold and hollowness filled the vacuum within your heart; encompassing your soul with grief.  Your world, as you knew it, and understood it is forever altered.

A sense of perplexity sets in. . .  the realization of the ramifications is numbing. Despair tries to set in. . .  wanting to take hold and destroy any awareness of normalcy.  Life seemingly has been forever transformed and unrecognizable.

Within the pit of your gut is a pain that is intense and penetrating.

2 Corinthians 4:8 - We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.

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But honestly, or perhaps a better way to for me to say it is... (if I’m honest with myself), this verse in 2 Corinthian’s doesn’t comfort me nor does it help alleviate my dilemma and I don’t believe it was meant to.   

That is the point; we will get through it because Christ goes through it with us. We are not alone, though it can often seem that way.  

We do not have the answers, but Christ does. 

We cannot change or correct the problem, but Christ can. 

It sometimes seems hopeless, but Christ is our hope.

I’m I distressed? No, I am concerned.

I’m I completely heartbroken? No, because I have hope.

I’m I still sorrowful? No, now I pray.

Has my prayers been answered? I believe they are being answered! Even though there is no evidence at this time; I trust that Christ will answer my prayer. . .  His will, in His time, for His purpose!

And even if I never see the answer on this side of heaven, I believe I will see my prayer answered in eternity.