Hitting Rock Bottom.. A Time To Rejoice!

I'm sure we've all heard the term "hitting rock bottom"..but what does that really entail and more importantly how do we and should we rise above again?

Hitting rock bottom is usually where we feel we have landed after a chain of snowballing events have taken place over a period of time throughout our life. 

Sometimes we are more like the tree that bends through a storm but will snap back rather quickly to its natural state. Sometimes the tree may show repercussions of the storm it had to endure. In the case with bending like the trees, we too can come back more easily than we can when we feel we have just sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

The main difference is that if we are still bending through hard times, it means we still have hope and are still trying. While it's good in some aspects to be like the tree that bends and bounces back quickly, sometimes it's just better if we stop trying and allow ourselves to hit rock bottom.

For me personally, I sometimes have a harder time hitting rock bottom and as crazy as it sounds, I sometimes long to hit rock bottom. If I bend enough times and am not hitting rock bottom it tells me that I am the one trying too hard and that means that it's all about leaning on my own strength instead of allowing God to be my strength. Therefore I have placed more hope in "my" overcoming the situation more so than giving up my control and handing it over to God and allowing Him to take control in the situation.

When I come to a point of feeling hopeless, believe it or not I rejoice in that feeling in a way because I know there's nothing more that "I" can do and I know then that should God work this out for me, there's only one answer and therefore I know that all glory will be given to Him alone and my hope and strength will be restored by His hands and not my own will of trying to make things happen the way I want them to.

Hitting rock bottom is a cause for celebration!

Maybe you're going through a very tough time right now and you can't see a way out of your situation. Maybe you just realize you have a control issue but can't seem to just "let it go". Whatever you're facing..I want to encourage you to see "rock bottom" as a blessing and not a curse. Maybe you are not quite there but you can feel yourself sinking.. being pulled under the water and you're in a panic and grasping for that last breath? Or maybe you are or have been like the tree that keeps bending in the storm and you feel like you're just never going to get through it and bounce back. 

Whatever your situation may be.. I want to encourage you to see your own situation through a new mind set. A mindset that encourages and frees you and does not condemn your mind to such negativity and a hopelessness that chains you to the burdens you carry.

It only takes a moment to repeat this prayer and in doing so you will gain a new and better perspective that will cause you to rise above again.

Father..I come before you now..not fully broken but I long to be..not fully trusting in you..but I want to...and not fully having the faith that I know I should have..but I desire to. Lord, I'm bending too many times never letting go and I need you to help me let this thing go. Father you know my situation better than I do and you can see the outcome. I ask that you help me to relinquish my control and place it fully in your hands. I ask you to sink me to the very rock bottom if that's what it takes to break me apart from my own will so that I can be and have all that you desire of and for me.

Father grant me a peace that overcomes me right now in the name of Jesus so that I may know that this time Lord, this time I have fully let go and have lain it all down at your feet. Bring me into submission of your will and establish your authority over my heart, my will, my mind, my emotions, my body and my soul. Let there be more of you in me and less of me that I and others see. Father I thank you that you have heard my hearts cry.

I thank you that you love me so much that you would send your Son to die in my place for my sins.

I thank you and praise you for the mighty loving Father that you are and I thank you for who you are, all that you're doing, have done and are going to do. 

Thank you for loving me in-spite of my own will to steer my mind off the course you set for me in faith and believing and for reaching down and lifting me back up right now. Help me now to keep this fresh new mindset in Jesus name I pray.. Amen.