Seeing Hopelessness as Hunger

 

So often throughout my life I have realized that being hopeful will get you far. Much farther than pitying yourself and feeling sorry for all the crosses you have to bare. 

The truth is we all have stuff. We all have things that others don't like about us. We all have things in our lives where we think if we could just fix that one thing we'd be golden and well liked by others. I am learning that not everyone is going to like you and not everyone is going to see the goodness within you. 

As harsh as this may sound, it is the way life is. God made you different from everyone else for a reason. 

Have you ever really thought about this? 

The world needs someone like you and this is why you must always yearn to be your true self, rather than aspiring to be exactly like another person. Yes it is okay for a person to be inspiring to you but you should always be careful to not "want" to become like that person. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. You are beautiful, needed, loved, forgiven and all the other things that God says you are.

Faith is such a hard aspect for so many people. The more I read other people's stories and the more that my story unfolds I am realizing that all you need to get close to Jesus, is to be hungry for him. All you need, is to strive for him and you will find him. It sounds a lot easier than it is, but once you can do this and open your heart to him, you will not regret it. There have been so many times that I feel I have hit a time of despair. I feel so far away from Jesus and as much as I don't like the feeling, I do not care much at the time, to get to know him. This act is an act of hopelessness. I already feel so far away from him I have no hope that things will ever end up the way that I am wishing they would. 

The more I think on this, the more I realize that I need to exchange my hopelessness for hunger. I need to be hungry to have a strong faith life. I need to be hungry to get out of my own head and start opening my heart to the Lord. Once again, this sounds like an easy job. But nothing is easy in life and this is for a reason. God wants us to yearn to know him. He wants us to learn and grow in our faith. He wants us to work hard to get to know him. Usually when you work hard to do something you typically don't want to leave it. 

My parents have worked hard to raise my siblings and I. They want to keep striving every day to keep that strong foundation because they have worked so hard on it. I have worked hard to keep my head up and live the life I was given. Because I have accomplished this so far, I want to keep working hard to keep a steady head. You see my point? The harder we get to know and love Jesus, we have a strong chance that we will stick with it and let nothing break us apart from that relationship. 

A couple things to think on: 

Exchange hopelessness for hunger 

You are LOVED 

You are FORGIVEN 

Love the Lord with all your heart 

Once you have seek for God you have already found him 

What a live we get to live. 

Maggie