The hardest battles are often the ones we fight alone. Fear, worry, and stress. Things that gnaw at your insides. These battles can be the most debilitating. Most of the time we go through these invisible battles silently. Nobody knows, or it seems no one cares. (That’s what the devil would like you to believe.)
So to all you warriors fighting your daily battles –
The working Moms exhausted and trying to be everything to everybody, and just make it through another day…
The empty nester struggling to find her place in the world now that the task of raising children is through…
You stay at home Moms, who worry you aren’t doing enough, or feel forgotten about…
My friends with ongoing health battles…
Sweet Mom with a wayward child you pray over every night…
Those of you with lost loved ones you fear will die without the Lord…
Ladies who are taking care of your parents, and hardly get to take care of yourselves…
The woman who is waiting for The Lord to speak and give her a sense of direction in life…
He knows. Jesus knows your invisible battles. Feelings that overwhelm you. Your name, exact location, and struggles. And he loves you, oh so much.
He wants you to come to him. He wants to make bearing your burden easier for you. In fact, he wants to bear it for you. ALL of it. Give it to him.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:7
The Shunammite Woman in 2 Kings 4
An example is given in the Bible for us of a woman who told nobody her problem, except the man of God. She didn’t even tell her husband, in spite of him asking what was wrong. (He cared for her, but she was dealing with a problem she knew he couldn’t help her with. Some things can only be fixed by God alone.) She was living for a short time with a burden that was unknown to anyone else, and she carried that heavy burden all alone until she gave it to God to handle.
So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
2 Kings 4:25-27
Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
This Shunammite woman told everyone she met along the way that “It is well”. She was good at putting on a happy face, and perhaps even fooling people about how she felt. Her only son had just died, by the way. She was traveling by herself to find the man of God who, at the time, had healing powers from God. But her soul was vexed. Inside she was struggling. She was heartbroken. Her anxiety was probably “off the charts”.
I know the end of the story.
It will all work out. God will bear your burden for you. Bring it to him. He wants to make all things work together for good for you. Will it always be the most pleasant journey in the world? No. There is no such thing as a perfect life. Nobody lives in this world without fighting some invisible battles. The key is to know where to go to find help. God loves you. He is for you. He knows the end from the beginning. If you will ask him, he will show you the way to go. He will lead you beside still waters, and stay with you while you rest a while if that’s what you need.
