Life got you down??

I've been in touch with my sister in law just about all week. She is terribly miserable, and totally totally hates Iowa. (No offensive to anyone who lives there or is from there.) We are just southern belles, and it's hard to take a lady out of the south and turn her into a mid-western chick.

One of my close friends, and a sermon I heard today at church via video of Perry Noble really hit home with me. When life has you down, don't sit and look at your situation and think it's hopeless. Because isn't God bigger than our problems?

In Scripture there are several times when Jesus brought people back to life. Today, I learned about one, that I guess I'd either never read or forgot about... and the way Perry described it was cool!

Luke 7:11-15 (New International Version)

11Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a "large crowd"went along with him. 12As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a "large crowd" from the town was with her. 13When the Lord saw her, His heart went out to her and He said, "Don't cry."14Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" 15The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

If you realize these were two crowds of people heading towards each other. As Perry said it, one was frustrated, the other anticipating Jesus' next miracle. So, when He first told her not to cry, and told the young man to get up... the town crowd with the mom probably thought, "This guy is crazy", but the crowd behind Jesus might have been thinking, "Can He really do something like this?"

Each were looking toward Jesus at the moment, and what happened? A miracle!

This is what we need to do. Stop focusing on our problems. God is bigger than any problem we'll ever have! Period. He just is. Don't like where you are living? Look to Jesus. Heart broken and torn apart? Look to Jesus. Marriage on the rocks? Look to Jesus.

Don't let life get you down. We are only here for a little while anyway, remember? Focus on what's positive and what God has done in your life, then look with anticipation at what He's about to do!