{"id":2186,"date":"2024-07-29T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorihatcher.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:14:15","slug":"is-life-hard-4-steps-to-help-you-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorihatcher.com\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Is Life Hard?  4 Steps to Help You Cope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Betrayed, persecuted, grieving, uncertain, confused, abused, afraid, and struggling.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you identify with any of these words? Most of us can, especially these days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Life is a struggle, and most days we feel the angst of living in a difficult world, with difficult people, under difficult circumstances.<\/strong>&nbsp;Throw a pandemic, societal unrest, and economic hardship in the mix, and you&#8217;ve got a formula for a major panic attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is why God includes stories about real people in the Bible. Reading other people\u2019s stories, the good, the bad, and the ugly, gives us perspective and, most important, hope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">King David was a man who experienced just about everything life can throw at someone. His memoir includes a humble beginning and an exalted ending. He came to faith early, and God used him in mighty ways to lead the nation of Israel. He also disappointed God greatly and lived much of his life with the consequences of his sin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong><br>The book of Psalms records many of his soul-searching, gut-wrenching conversations with God.&nbsp;<\/strong>Psalm 71 is one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to David\u2019s cry:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O Lord, I have come to you for protection; don\u2019t let me be disgraced. Save me and rescue me, for you do what is right. . . . in my old age, don\u2019t set me aside. Don\u2019t abandon me when my strength is failing. For my enemies are whispering against me. They are plotting together to kill me. They say, \u2018God has abandoned him. Let\u2019s go and get him, for no one will help him now.<\/p>\n<cite>Psalm 71:1, 2, 9-11 NLT<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His example reminds us that it\u2019s OK to pour out our hearts to God when we are distressed.&nbsp;<strong>But Psalm 71 isn\u2019t just a lament and cry for help. It\u2019s a prescription for how to weather difficult circumstances.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgVBR97YohFgxOGqe06DEh16SZhEKT_yWLKgPvCYNErHS3yJiMtQOFb0xBrQrQVTeQ97QRjmmWZcA0RXHUVf5RbgT03rZrZveoZmD6telo1g7V7QXOM5CMMr8Ov1jC-s1saNEGfwFpx4l0\/s400\/4+Steps+when+Life+Gets+Hard.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">King David\u2019s 4 Step Plan (vv. 13-17)<a href=\"#\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Don\u2019t lose hope.<\/strong>&nbsp;David expresses his commitment to trust God: \u201cBut I will keep on hoping for your help.\u201d No matter what happens, we must never stop believing that God hears and answers our prayers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Don\u2019t stop praising God.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI will praise you more and more,\u201d he says. \u201cI will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power.\u201d Praising God reminds ourselves and others that God is good, even when our circumstances are not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Don\u2019t forget what God has done.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign Lord.\u201d Reflect on the many ways he has worked in the lives of faithful men, and remember how he has worked in your own life. God\u2019s long history of faithful care for his children strengthens our faith, because we know God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Don\u2019t stop sharing your faith with others.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cI will tell everyone that you alone are just.\u201d Sometimes when difficult circumstances enter our lives, we\u2019re tempted to slander God with our words or our lack of faith. We must resist, choosing instead to take a faith stand and continue to testify of God\u2019s goodness, no matter what.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you\u2019re betrayed, persecuted, grieving, uncertain, confused, abused, or struggling, King David\u2019s four-step plan for weathering difficult circumstances is powerful and effective.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My prayer for you<\/strong>&nbsp;is that you will soon be able to testify, as David did, \u201cYou who have done great things; O God, who is like You? You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth. 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