Having nothing to live for sucks. You have time, and energy, and nowhere to put it. You put your time and effort into the menial things of a job (merely so you can keep surviving), and the trivial facebook. You come to the end of your night, still filled with energy, minus time, and with utter frustration. "I have spent my day for what?!!!" Frustration rises and fists are clenched with anger at the meaninglessness and loss of it all! You hit the bed and feel like kicking and punching. You feel like you wanna take the world out, and yet, what good will it do? You have no hope for tomorrow. Wishes only that maybe tomorrow might not come. That maybe you wouldn't have to do the things you know are pointless, merely to fill time and make the day pass. Utter frustration. Utter hopelessness.
As Followers and Servants of the Most High King, we have something to live for. Some days are filled with frustration, and with seemingly unimportant activity, with mundane or trivial tasks merely for time to pass. And yet, we have the King to live for. We have a reason to rise from the mundane, to wake in the morning, and to continue on. We have Jesus.
So "let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Let us "run the race with perseverance," and cling to hope for "the Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him."
Let us live with purpose, and keep our eyes focused on Him, trusting that He has the bigger picture in mind, and knowing that there is a world who needs to know Him, to praise Him, and to serve Him.
So Father, this is our prayer... that we might live with purpose in every step and moment. That we would remember WHO we live for, and that we have a purpose... an eternal purpose. May we not grow weary, and may we continue to seek and to follow You. We trust that You know the bigger picture and that Your ways are best. So we cling to You and we trust You. We surrender. Lord, have Your way in and through us...
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