Title [8.7] To live without despair
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(Psalm 42:1-11)
It is a difficult and difficult time. It seems to be true because you can hear people say it is difficult to live here and there. There are so many people who live in despair because of these political and economic difficulties. There is a slight difference in degree, but there are many Christians who are desperate like this. According to the survey, 20% of young Christians have suffered from depression, and 5% of them said they have been treated. Young people at the age of dreaming are like this, but what about older people?
How can I live with strength in these difficult times?
First, we must look to God, not to ourselves. This happened during a medical mission in Bangladesh. I went to the local market on a bicycle called a rickshaw, but the missionary and my bicycle got a puncture. The other party had already gone so far that they could not hear us even if we called ahead. In the end, I started running hard to call up the other parties. I was running frantically and I turned around thinking something was strange, and black people were following me. A lot of our lives are like this. I don't know where I'm going, and people are running because other people are going, so there are many times when I'm just being led without a purpose. The word ‘I’ appears a lot in the text, but when I looked at myself, I felt skeptical and hopeless. The more difficult and difficult, the more desperate you look at me. I hope you will look to God and have hope.
Second, we must look to the future, not the past. Gora-son, who wrote the text, begins to recall the best days of his life, probably because he hated the situation he was in right now. Let's take a look back at our lives. Where is the person who has never been in good times? However, the question is whether the present joy continues. Rather than passing time comparing the present with the good times, I hope that you can make the present into a better time by remembering that there is no past as good as the present.
Third, we should sing praises without complaining. God has given us the power of the ‘tongue’. So our lives are meant to be what we say. The saying ‘words become seeds’ clearly shows how important each word is. A single word that I easily throw may become a snare to myself. The descendants of Korah in Psalm 42 also started with a complaint, but they realized this during prayer and confessed that they would rather praise God. If you say that it is difficult or difficult, you will feel as if it will never happen again. Even if you are desperate now, I hope that you will be able to sing praises while looking forward to God who will do a new thing after this.
God is asking why are you worried and why are you worried. In the name of the Lord, I pray that you will become believers who will gain strength by looking at the Lord rather than dying from the current difficulties.