Put Your Hope in the Lord

There are many things in life that I cannot predict but there is one thing I can be sure about. If there are several days without sunshine my body begins to react. Researchers usually say there is a lack of Vitamin D in the body and encourage eating healthy and exercising to increase serotonin levels. The problem is my brain tells me to do the opposite. I want to sleep more and eat tons of carbs. I absolutely hate to get out of the house especially if it is raining! My viewing of worthless television increases and my mood gets rather sour. I want to crawl under a warm blanket and not come out. I am not a fun person to be around. Life stinks! The problem with this is that life goes on whether there is sunshine or not. I have learned that through God's help our attitude and mood can change, though.

I love reading Psalm 42:11 when this mood attempts to overcome me. "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my
Savior and my God." My favorite part of this verse is the "put your hope in God" section. You see, God never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!! Although my moods and attitudes can change and vary quite frequently he never changes. He is a constant throughout my life. I can come to him any time and he will always be there.

Earlier I said life goes on whether there is sunshine in our life or not. I was not just talking about the weather. Our lives can change in a fraction of a second. We feel we are at the mountain top and then we come crashing down to the valley. So, when the sunshine in your life seems to have disappeared, turn to him. Let him wrap his loving arms around you and give you peace. Let him melt away the sour mood in your life. Let Jesus be the light that you need when the clouds threaten to break you.

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:28-31


"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8