“Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but Him.”

A thought by Mark Batterson, (2015-10-06) from his book, If: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities (Kindle Location 3914). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

I don’t know where you are today? I know I have had a struggle finding a thought that really gripped me to write on today. I was even tempted to not write but I had something that kept prodding me on. So again I say, I don’t know where you are? But God does and He may be the one who lead you to where you are today.

There was one thought that Mark gave back a couple of chapters in his book that said, “Never have the odds been more stacked against someone than they were the day Christ was betrayed, arrested, flogged, and crucified.”

Is that the kind of day you feel you are going through? Oh I know that some of you are possibly going through some very,very tough times and you are very discouraged. Please remember, “But Jesus overcame the odds, and that makes us the overcomers!”

He then later says, “I have stopped categorizing things as good and bad. Why? Because all things work together for good. That’s my conviction. I’m not saying they are good when they happen, but there is nothing that God cannot redeem and recycle for His purposes. And sometimes it’s the bad things that turn out to be the best things that have happened to me.”

Please understand, “No matter what trouble, hardship, or persecution you face, this too shall pass. More importantly, Jesus is with you and Jesus is for you. And no matter what has died at the hands of sin or Satan, Jesus can roll away the stone.”

Yes, God took Jesus through a very difficult day but also three days later He resurrected Him. Jesus knew that God could be trusted. And also remember, Jesus is now at the right hand of God interceding for you. You are not in this alone. So just turn to Him.

So what are you going through?

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