In the dumps!?!

Praise the LORD!!!

   Though you'll always hear praises coming from my lips, it doesn't mean that my emotions can't be in the dumps. King David often spent times when he himself felt at the bottom of the rivers.

   Preaching today, so often tells us that we've always got to be at the top of the emotional hill. When in truth, life is more of a roller-coaster, with both highs and lows. More often than not, it is the lows that predominate our lives.

   It is how one suffers thru these lows that makes the difference in the effectiveness of their ministry. Can one continue to "plow on," when it seems as if they're running into the very gates of hell. That is not a question, but a statement. For when all hell seems to be upon one's back, all that they can see is blankness, it is to GOD that they'll be calling out to. Sure, they may be praying for HIM to put an end to their lives, thus ending the pain, but it is then that it is clearest, that only GOD can lift them from these pits!!!

   Look up from among the mire, for it is GOD that shall provide you relief !!!!!!!