Avoiding Discouragement by Suburb

Avoiding Discouragement by Suburb.

How to prevent the demands of life from killing your Soul

Friday, May 27, 2016

Jeff Lampl

Sometimes discouragement becomes so profound that . . . .

Sometimes even the best of us experience a depression that leaves us with no desire left to continue on with life.   Sometimes it feels like no one cares, that nothing you do has any value to anyone, that the world would be just fine without you.  

Read Philippians 1:20-27   (click on the passage and the scripture will appear)

Maybe you’ve felt like your time here on earth is over, so why not just go to heaven now?   Paul’s answer was really good, I think.   He states that he must remain alive for the sake of others who need him.  

Someone needs you.  Those who need you might not be the people who hope will need you.   But there are so many people with so many needs, that it cannot be argued that you are needed to help someone.  

In times of despair, usually the last thing any of us want to do is to help someone else, yet, just picking yourself up and doing what you don’t feel like doing by going somewhere you are needed, you will find that you have taken a simple step toward a breath of freshness in your life.

The simple truth is that you were created to serve others.   We live in world of selfish, sinful people, including me and you.   That means life is and always will be hard.   But God is re-creating us into new kinds of people, those who live for others.   When that gets formed in us we come alive.  

Our greatest joy will always, always, always be found when our lives are used to meet the world’s need. 

To get to that point requires the hard first step of actually acting on that especially when we don’t feel like it.

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