Built to Last

Everything seems too complicated, too many trials and test are coming at me all at the same time, and I'm overwhelmed. It wasn't as simple as I thought it would be. I crossed the threshold of a new year and my problems and issues followed right behind. The temptations and bad situations that I thought would finally leave me alone have not, and it bothers me. I wanted to come into the New Year with a new groove and new moves, but life lately seems to be on master repeat. My burdens seem so heavy that I find it difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know that God is real, but it seems as if he's ignoring me. I try to keep my head up in the midst of my trials because I know that so many others look up to me. I do my best to represent God to the best of my abilities, but the light inside of me is becoming more and more dim. I'm the friend that everyone calls when they're down or hurt, I'm the friend that people call when they need some advice, I'm the friend that is forever offering a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on, but right now I have nothing left. I'm so broken that I feel empty, and incapable of tears because my spirit is scarred. Scarred from a past that I've yet to heal from and people in my life who continue to use me. I'm scarred by my parent who had little to no faith in my ability to succeed and although I was once resilient and relentless, now I'm fragile and beat.

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Let us bow:
Heavenly Father,

Many of us are tired and we feel broken. We're discouraged even though the New Year just began and so we ask that you move on our hearts that we might be apart of the glorious work that you are doing even now in 2014. Father we honor you for we know that you are all powerful and so we ask that you heal all of our wounds that we might be able to move forward in you. Guide us that we might be able to make better decisions and 2014. Surround us with people who will care for and about us, help us to be able to discern whether or not people have our best interest at heart, keep us in the palm of your mighty hand. Protect us Lord and give us the strength to keep our head up and walk forward in you as you have called us to do, give us the courage we need to continue standing on your promises, have your way God like only you can, for it is in the name of the Christ we pray, Amen.