When things are going well, we feel that all is possible, and our trust and faith in God comes naturally. There is no stopping what we can accomplish.

The test is when things aren’t going well. These are the times when our trust and faith can be shaken. Negative thoughts can fill our minds and cause us to ask, “Will God come through for me?” Or when we lose control in our lives, our faith is tested. Even worse, when everyone around has given up on us, we can question if God, too, has given up. Most of us have, at one time or another, been in this place or felt this way.

When you find yourself in this situation, and you have tried everything, trust God.  Trust Jesus. Jesus cares,

Jesus listens, and Jesus will help you when no 1 else will.

There isn’t much to lose, but all to gain.

This is what one man learned when he was trapped beneath the Earth’s surface without anyone around to help but only God to trust. He could only cry out to Jesus. He cried out to God for help.

Bobby Spencer was a West Virginia coal miner who was hundreds of feet below the surface when the shaft he was working in collapsed. After the dust settled, Bobby knew he was trapped and alone. On the land above, miners ran mechanical devices to see if there were any survivors but found none.

After a while they gave up hope, assuming everyone had died. Bobby felt differently. He was very much alive. He decided that he would start doing what he did best. He dug and dug and dug.

With his bloodied hands, he clawed away one rock at a time. He said there was only one thing he kept repeating to himself, a Scripture verse he learned in Sunday school, “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.” He repeated this over and over again as he dug himself out. Jesus is with me, He is giving me strength. He will help me because He cares for me and He cares about me.

I don’t think any of us have the faintest idea of what this coal miner must have felt knowing that he was hundreds of feet below the Earth’s surface in darkness and facing death. But we all know how it feels to be in spiritual darkness.

When we are down, Jesus is able. Others gave up, but Bobby didn’t and neither did God.  Neither did Jesus.

His faith and trust in Christ helped him to keep going till he saw the light that led him out of the cave. When everything fails, trust God. Trust Jesus. When people turn their backs on you, when they don’t support you, don’t seem to care, and what you have been going through doesn’t seem to change, and what you want or need doesn’t show up. Trust Jesus, He is working, He cares, and He will guide you until you see the light that guides you out of your cave.

–Pablo Diaz

If you want Jesus to help you thru it, join us in this simple prayer, dear Jesus, please help me thru what I am going thru, I can’t seem to find my way and I don’t understand what God is doing, grant me strength, insight, energy and your loving and gentle presence as I turn to and trust in you to help me. Help me find the light Jesus, that guides me out of my cave like experiences.

Show me what to do Jesus, what I need to give, or where I need to look to find what you have for me.

Lift me up and out of my pits of despair and guide me to solutions that will give me the victory over what I am going thru, Jesus, help me learn how to trust You and help me hold on till I can see the light in my circumstances,  it is in your name, I humbly ask and pray, Amen!

 What scripture verse or promise do you hold on to when you find yourself in a dark place that seems like it might be a cave? Please share with us.

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