Need help and hope? Psalm 145:14

Psalm 145:14 The Eternal sustains all who stumble on their way. For those who are broken down, God is near. He raises them up in hope.

The only way to have lasting, real hope is by knowing God.

Hope sometimes fails even those who know God. I often wonder how those who don't know God make it through tough, hopeless times?

Everyone living will enter hard times.

Those hard times when we are broken, when there's no way to hold it together.

Those times that come unexpectedly or that result from sin.

Those times when we can't control an outcome.

The questions:

How do we pass through deep waters without drowning?

How do we continue to live after devastation?

How do we live broken or heart-broken?

Ask God.

If you know Him.

Only God can hold you and your life together.

Only. God. Can.

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