He never said, “understand me”. He said, “trust me. Just trust me” – Dr. Charles Stanley, (The courage to keep going.)

When going through mental suffering, feelings of unfairness can arise. Some people have the privilege of never having to face these mental battles. However, I want to emphasise that although not everyone might experience mental suffering, everyone does experience suffering. 

I am not here to lie to you, I don’t always know why suffering takes place. Personally I experienced Jesus in a tangible way while going through these seasons of suffering. That’s why I feel called to encourage you in your suffering so that you don’t give up on life or on Him. 

Remain in Him, even when you don’t understand. 

I already emphasised the importance of spending time in the presence of God. In this post, I want to encourage you to fix your focus on Him wherever you are. For me, this looked like meditating on one scripture a day. Every moment throughout the day when my mind was wandering off, I would meditate on scripture. I would talk to Him every free moment I had, and if that was not possible I would write small notes on my phone. 

In this way, you are shifting your mind towards eternal matters. 

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal – 2 Corinthians 4:18 

Your suffering is only temporary. 

We can trust the God we serve. As humans, we tend to forget how big the God is that we serve. I am here to remind you that you are, even in your seasons of suffering,  safe in his hands. 

God is an entity that was there before you were. He created humankind out of his love and when we fell into sin.  He could have left us in our sin and let us die. But instead, he paid the price for our sin, by coming in human form to the earth and dying on the cross. 

And if you were the only human in the world, He would do it again. 

Remain in Him, because you are safe with Him.