God didn’t remove the Red Sea—He parted it. That moment reminds us that God’s power is not limited to taking problems away, but often revealed in making a way through them. The Israelites still had to walk forward, step by step, trusting Him as the waters stood on both sides. In the same way, God may not always remove the challenges in your life, but He will never leave you without a path. He strengthens you, guides you, and goes before you, making a way where there seems to be none.

Whatever you are facing today, don’t lose heart. Your situation is not bigger than your God. What feels impossible is an opportunity for Him to show His faithfulness. Keep moving forward in faith, even if the way is not fully clear yet. God is already working ahead of you, preparing your breakthrough.

“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:14.

Prayer:

Lord, help me to trust You even when the path is uncertain. Give me courage to walk forward in faith, knowing that You are making a way for me through every challenge. Amen.

God bless you abundantly.

How many times has your ‘problem’/situation occurred in His-story? I will point out in humility “There is nothing new under the Sun.”

Based on biblical teaching, your “problem” or situation has likely occurred an infinite or countless number of times throughout “His-story.” The core message of the Bible regarding human struggles is that nothing is truly new under the sun. 

Here is the biblical perspective on recurring life situations:

1. “Nothing New Under the Sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) 

The book of Ecclesiastes states that history is cyclical rather than linear, and human problems repeat generation after generation. 

• “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again…” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
• While technology and methods change, human nature, emotions, temptations, and sins (pride, greed, fear) remain the same. 

2. Biblical Examples of Repeated Struggles

The Bible records numerous accounts of people facing the same trials, suggesting your situation is part of a long human narrative: 

• Betrayal and Jealousy: Joseph was sold by his brothers; David was hunted by Saul.
• Wilderness and Scarcity: The Israelites faced lack of water and food, complained, and doubted God (Exodus 15-17), a situation that repeats in many forms.
• Disobedience and Consequence: The book of Judges shows a repetitive cycle of sin, oppression, crying out to God, and rescue.
• Fear and Anxiety: Disciples in a storm; Elijah running for his life; Peter denying Jesus.
• The “Fall Seven Times” Principle: Proverbs 24:16 states, “For a righteous man may fall seven times, and rise again,” suggesting that repeated failures (even in a righteous life) are expected and recoverable. 

3. The Purpose of Repetition

According to Bible teaching, these situations are repeated for several reasons:

• Need for Repentance/Learning: God often allows us to face the same “predictament” until we learn the lesson (e.g., trust, humility).
• Deepening Trust: The problems are opportunities to see God’s faithfulness, which is “new every morning” (Lamentations 3:23).
• Compassion and Maturity: Experiencing trials allows us to comfort others, having received comfort from God (2 Corinthians 1:3-5). 

Summary for Your Situation

While your struggle feels unique and personal, the Bible teaches that you are not alone and that humanity has been dealing with this same issue since the Fall (Genesis 3). The comfort offered is that because these issues are not new, the solutions—God’s grace, redemption, and presence—are also long-established and available.

What If I Am the Problem?

What about God’s love then? 

by Natalie Abbott

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:22-23

Sometimes I feel like I might be swallowed up.

By grief.
By heartache.
By hard things.
By hateful people.
By all of the worst possible possibilities.
Yet…I am not consumed. 

Why? Because love. 

Because the God of all things, God himself, he loves me. And his love is a massive, all-encompassing, bigger-than-all-my-problems love—powerful to rescue me out of despair with limitless compassion. How many times has he rescued me with his love? How many more times will he? As many as I need. And each time I claim these truths as my own:

“Because of the Lord’s great love, I am not consumed.”

I cling to my God as I say these words. They tether me to him through each and every difficult season. Yet as beautiful and true as this promise is when I have problems, its truest truth reaches deeper still.

Because sometimes, I am the problem.

I’m the one who’s hateful. My own heart is the hard thing. I rigidly hold onto my way. I recklessly run into sin. I refuse to forgive. I hurt people. I even hurt God (yes, it’s possible). And I find myself distant and distraught, sitting in the consequences of my wrongs. When I’m the problem, what then? 

God’s compassion never fails…still. 

The God who loves me when life is hard, loves me still when I am hard. The God who is always faithful is faithful still—even when I am faithless. And these words that restore my wounded heart are the very words that restore my wounding heart. They reach down deeper than the place of sorrow and into my shame and sin to lead me back to my kind God. 

How do I know? 

I’ve seen it. It’s all modeled right there in the fuller story surrounding our verse (listen to this week’s podcast episode for more). God’s people aren’t crying out to God for his love and compassion because they’ve been wronged, but because they are wrong. Lamentations is their weeping confession and raw response to all of the consequences they’ve endured because of their sin. And our verses are the words of God’s rebellious people crying out to him. This is a paraphrase of their hopeful confession:

“Because of who you are, we know you will save us. We don’t appeal to our own good character, but to yours. Because of your great love, you will not let us be consumed by all the consequences of our sin. We know that your compassion never fails. Even now. It is new each morning. Even this morning. We claim your faithfulness—nothing we could do could alter who you are. And so we rely on your love, compassion, and faithfulness. Even and especially now. We need it desperately.”

This is my own confession too. 

Just this morning I read God’s own thoughts about this same story of rebellion and restoration. I was struck by what he says to his sinful children in Ezekiel 16:62-63. He says that he will pay the price for all of their sin, and they will remember what he will do for them and they will be confounded and shut their mouths. He’s talking about Jesus and his future payment for all sins with his life. And here’s what struck me: all of my own sin. And when I remember what Jesus has done, I really am confounded by his love and sacrifice. I have no words. I can only shut my mouth. Yet when I finally open it again, I cannot help but confess with every other sinner, past and present: 

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” — Lamentations 3:22-23

This is my hope—the only hope for all of us sinners. Our salvation depends on a God whose love is massive. We will never be consumed, not even by our own sin. Because his compassion never fails. Truly, his faithfulness is great. 

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Stop raising soft, nice Christian children. Raise warriors. The devil is not playing gentle with your kids. He is targeting their identity, their purity, their attention, their calling. And we are responding with cartoons and powerless religion.

Enough.

In Scripture, young Samuel heard the voice of God (1 Samuel 3). David killed a giant as a teenager (1 Samuel 17). Jeremiah was called before he felt ready (Jeremiah 1:6–7). God has never waited for adulthood to release authority.

There is no junior Holy Spirit.

Acts 2 says the promise is for you and your children. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in believers. Not a diluted version. Not a smaller measure.

Stop introducing your children to a powerless God.

Show them He still heals. Let them pray for the sick. Teach them how to walk the floor and intercede. Let them hear you cast out devils in the Name of Jesus so they know authority is real.

Demons do not respect age. They respect authority.

If you do not train your children in spiritual power, culture will train them in spiritual confusion.

Raise children who know how to worship. Who know how to fast. Who know how to discern. Who know how to open their mouth and command darkness to move.

We do not need well-behaved spectators.

We need demon-slayers.

Train them now.

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