2 CORINTHIANS 12:9
Many nights I come home and I cry myself to sleep. I am so confused and frustrated! God has been silent in my life for a long time now, and I am longing to meet with Him again. I don’t understand. Doesn’t God want me to grow closer to Him? Why do I feel so far away from Him? I struggle with motivation to actually spend time in His Word, and I wonder if he does not want to listen. I struggle with depression every day because it seems like His truth applies to everyone but me. Recently I read a verse in Isaiah that says God will quench the dry ground. Right now I am the dry ground. I am that dry ground that will one day be given water. I believe God has put this time in my life to draw me closer to Him. I believe this because Christ has said so, and so I must hold on to that truth! Perhaps God is whispering so quietly because He wants me to come closer to hear what He is saying. And when I finally hear Him, I will be much closer to Him than I ever was before. And so I will continue to come closer to God, until I hear his whisperings of Truth and of Love.
Hailey Howerton, 16, home school, Greenville, SC
Thank You, dear Lord, for taking away
my emptiness and filling me up with Your love!