The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time

You every feel like your in a "rut" or "in the fog", or that it seems like no matter how hard you try nothing seems to be working right.  The harder you try, the worse it seems to get.  The stress level gets higher, higher, and higher.  No matter how old you are, we all get to the point where we feel that way.  Some of it can be stress we bring on ourselves, some can be driven by those around us, and some may just be completely out of anyone's control. 

This is where I am, and I'm sure at some point you have been there too..

So how do we deal with it?

what do we do?

better question is:  how do we get OUT of it...

I don't know that I have any good answer, but in my devotion today I read this and it helped me a lot:

31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?  32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.  34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.  35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”c
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,d neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ro 8:31-39, NIV)

"What can separate us from the LOve of Christ?"  STress?  Trouble?  hard times?

nothing, absolutely nothing.....

These verses not only tell me that nothing has separated me from the love of Christ, but I am a conqueror.  In fact it says I am "more than a conqueror".  I can conquer this, I will conquer this, I won't let it get me down.  I will succeed.  I AM CONVINCED.  If God is for me (and by the way He is), no one shall stand against me. 

I'm ready to play, put me in coach, I'm fired up now, lets go!!!

This terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time, I'm done with it - are you done with yours?

Have a blessed day, Chris