Here I Am, Lord: Devotions From Time of Graceনমুনা
I Feel so Overwhelmed
Lord, help! Some days I am so overwhelmed and exhausted that I want to give up. I’d run away, but I am too tired. I can’t keep up. I don’t know how much longer I can keep juggling my job, marriage, children, house, bills, and all the other demands put on me.
Many days I feel like a failure in each area of my life. I can’t work on improvement when every day I’m just reacting to the next crisis or problem. I don’t feel proud of anything I do. I just can’t get ahead. “Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched” (Psalm 69:1-3).
Lord, please help me! Send relief from heaven. I know you want me to be self-sufficient. I know you want me to stand on my own two feet. But my burdens are more than I think I can bear. I appeal to your love. I appeal to you as my Father. Do what all good fathers do when their children are going under; come with your greater strength and bring help. I call to you and trust in your mercy and wisdom. Please come today and help me!
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About this Plan
God knows that our tongues and brains sometimes lack the words to say, and so he provided the beautiful book of Psalms in his Word to provide vocabulary for us to bring our thoughts and concerns to him. These devotions use psalms to help you voice your needs and hurts and joys to the Lord.
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