Inner Storms

When we think of crisis coming to us sometimes I think we look outside ourselves for those crisis. We wonder what's going to come our way, what's going to interfere with our lives in a negative way. What might we have to handle. Unfortunately not all crisis come at us that way. Sometimes the upsets come from within ourselves and we are that crisis. Seriously. Self-doubt can be embroiled in so much and it eats away at us. Confidence isn't something that is always easy, or rather a lot of times it isn't easy. Our thoughts can start us on a downward spiril of doubt and anguish. We can look at our lives and realize so much isn't the way we'd have it be in so many ways and it can cause us to slip down into despair.

Despair-
ya?'ash
yaw-ash'
A primitive root; to desist, that is, (figuratively) to despond: - (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.


Despair-
exaporeomai
ex-ap-or-eh'-om-ahee
Middle voice from G1537 and G639; to be utterly at a loss, that is, despond: - (in) despair.


In despair we lose hope and that's something we really can't afford to lose hope.


When we have no hope...


Jer 18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.


...there is a tendency to just go crazy in sin. We stop affording sin the deadliness it holds and we embrace the sins because without hope we feel there is no reason to seek God or His ways. When we get to that point we have no hope at all, we despair. Facing the inward upsets that eat away at our hope is a treacherous thing. We have to remember that it isn't always the outside forces that assail us and put us in harm's way. The storms in our lives can come in many ways, the slippery ground, the sinking sand can be found within us. We have to really set ourselves on the solid Rock of Christ and His ways during ALL crisis, internal and external without neglecting one or the other. With emotional turmoil and many things that can cause it we really need to place ourselves on the Rock and hold fast throughout all storms.


May God bless and keep us in Him, in the hope of Him so that we don't give in to despair and succumb to the evil within our hearts, evils we all have and evils we need God to create in us a clean heart from, renewing a right spirit within. By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior, now and forever.


Amen.


Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.