How To Handle The Load You Are Under?

1 Peter 1:6 (KJV)
⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

Have you ever felt overloaded by burdens? Has life ever pressed you to the point where you wanted to quit?  Life has a way of emasculating your vigor and fortitude to forge forward.  The burdens of life have a way of wearing and weighing you down.  One thing after another seems to keep coming at you without any time to adjust to everything that is going on.

Have you ever felt like you have a bulls eye on your back and you are a moving target?  As time goes on you seem to lose your resolve and resiliency.  It gets harder to continue to function day in and out.  You try to appear as if everything is fine, but you know people can see through the mask you put on every day.  The situation seems to deteriorate as seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours into days, days into weeks, weeks into months and in some cases months into years.  What do you do when you pray for the load to be lightened, but it seems to get heavier?   How do you keep going when you try to motivate yourself to keep going but it does not work? 

The Apostle Peter encourages us in the midst of a season of trials.  He tells us in our season of suffering, affliction or trials to rejoice because it is only for a season.  That is good news to me.  God has determined and dictated the length of our season of trials.  You can rejoice because what you are experiencing now is only temporary.  I love the song that says, “I’m so glad that trouble doesn’t last always.”  We need to be reminded of that when we are going through our trials.  You are not the finished product.  Your life is not over.  God has not put the finishing touches on your life.  Things may be dark right now, and you can’t see your way.  However, a brighter day is ahead.  Peter also says to rejoice because the season of trials is necessary.  God is grooming you for your next season. 

It is necessary for you to cry right now, hurt right now, not understand right now, and to be alone right now.  Dr. A.W. Tozer says “God can’t use you greatly until he has hurt you deeply.”  The quote suggests to me that pain propels us into God’s purpose for our life.  Pain is merely weakness leaving the body.  It is also the fuel that helps pull the productivity out of us.  God knows what he is doing with your life and he is preparing you for your next season. Hang in there and remember the hardest fight is just to keep holding on.  

God bless and keep you is my prayer.