See a Way Out

     Sometimes, as the days of COVID drag on, and the gray days of winter do the same, I begin to feel down and gloomy as well. A friend, I was texting, said she felt the same way some times and wondered why we have these low days. I texted back, "Sometimes we forget this is not our home," which is true, but also, it is the nature of the human race to feel a variety of emotions, sorrow is just one example. 

    Even Jesus, as His last days here on earth started to come to an end, became "overwhelmed with sorrow." Matthew 26:36-39 gives us the scenario, "Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, 'Sit here while I go over there and pray.' He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, 'My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.' Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.'"

    So Jesus dealt with sorrow by praying to His Father in heaven and asking that God's will be done, not His own. That example of submission to the Father is good for all of us, that when we are low and feel unable to go on, that we should get on our knees and pray for God's will, not our will in the matter at hand, to be done. Then, we must get up, dust ourselves off and step out in faith that God is in control. Easy? Not for me, but better than if I continue in my sadness until I can no longer see a way out. Jesus Christ is The Way, especially when you see no way. 

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."