DAILY DEVOTIONAL – AUGUST 25, 2021 God’s Endless Love for the Hurting By David Wilkerson (1931-2011) When you hurt the worst, go to your secret closet and weep out all your despair! Jesus wept. Peter wept bitterly; he carried with him the hurt of denying the very Son of God. Those bitter tears worked in him a sweet miracle, and he came back to shake the kingdom of Satan. Jesus never looks away from a crying heart. He said,  “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, you will not despise” (Psalm 51:17, NKJV).  Not once will the Lord say, “Get hold of yourself!  Stand up and take your medicine.  Grit your teeth.” No, Jesus stores every tear in his eternal container. Do you hurt? Badly? Go ahead and cry!  Keep on crying until the tears stop flowing, but let those tears originate only from hurt and not from unbelief or self-pity. Life goes on.  You would be surprised how much you can bear with God helping you. Tears and emptiness may swallow you up at times, but God is still on his throne.  You can’t help yourself.  You can’t stop the pain and hurt.  Our blessed Lord will come to you, and he will place his loving hand under you and lift you up to sit again in heavenly places. He will reveal his endless love for you. Encourage yourself in the Lord.  When the fog surrounds you and you can’t see any way out of your dilemma, lie back in the arms of Jesus and simply trust him.  He wants your faith and confidence.  He wants you to cry aloud, “Jesus loves me! He is with me.  He will not fail me.  He is working it all out right now.  I will not be cast down.  I will not be defeated.  I will not be a victim of Satan.  I love God, and he loves me!” As Paul told the church in his letters.  “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:31-32). Happiness is not living without pain or hurt.  True happiness is learning how to live one day at a time, despite all the sorrow and pain. Read and Listen OnlineForward to a Friend

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