Dear Struggling Christian,
You may be battling sin, depression, addiction, abandonment, abuse, sickness, loneliness, discouragement, infertility, rejection, or countless other foes, but I want you to know something today.
If you are in Christ…
God loves you. (Jn. 3:16)
God hears you. (Ex. 2:24)
God sees you. (Ex. 2:25)
God knows you. (Ps. 139:1)
God delights in you. (Ps. 147:11)
God cares for you. (1 Pet. 5:7)
God weeps with you. (Jn. 11:35)
God watches over you. (Ps. 121:5)
God has chosen you. (Eph. 1:4)
God has a plan for you. (Jer. 29:11)
God has blessed you. (Eph. 1:3)
God is with you. (Matt. 28:20)
God is in you. (Jn. 14:20)
God is for you. (Rom. 8:31)
God is working in you. (Phil. 2:13)
God will keep you. (Ps. 121:7)
God will sustain you. (Ps. 55:22)
God will provide for you. (Phil. 4:19)
God offers grace. (2 Cor. 9:8)
God offers mercy. (Ps. 86:15)
God offers wisdom. (Jms. 1:5)
God offers strength. (Isa. 41:10)
God offers healing. (Ps. 147:2)
God offers peace. (Phil. 4:7)
God offers forgiveness. (1 Jn. 1:9)
God offers hope. (Col. 1:27)
God offers joy. (Jn. 15:11)
God will never leave you. (Ps. 27:10)
God will never forsake you. (Deut. 31:8)
God will never forget you. (Isa. 49:15)
As you read that very incomplete list, what’s your gut response? To some it might seem a little fluffy and shallow. To others a bit unrealistic. Whatever your instinctual response is to reading such a list, you can be assured that it’s neither fluffy nor unrealistic.
These are theologically-sound, rock-solid, deep truths that will help us stay afloat every single day. On the good days and bad days, these are the truths that will keep us anchored to Christ. As Jerry Bridges famously said, “Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.”1
Our struggles can seem insurmountably large, but “God is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think” (Eph. 3:20). “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 Jn. 4:4) “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” (Rom. 5:20).
I pray that God himself would assure you that all these and more can be yours in and through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, pg. 9