When everything seems to fall apart.

At some point, every human being goes through the season of failure, a time when it seems that everything you try, everything you do, seems to fall apart. No decision you may take, no venture you try, seems to be right. Everything you touch, turns to mud.

Sounds familiar?

Job 16:6 Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased? 7 But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate. 8 And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.

What to do, when life dishes out lemons? Someone once said: “when life hands you lemons – make lemonade”

Very easy to say when sitting on the sidelines. But, when you have gone through the school of ‘hard nocks’, perhaps easier to speak from experience.

David was such a man. He had so many promises, he was anointed to become king of Israel, yet he had to run for his life. The future king had to hide in caves, live off the land, fight for his life.

The man that could stand and face Goliath as a teenager, had to run as a young adult.

Did this stop him from his dream and his destiny?

Psa 91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, my refuge and my fortress; my God; in Him I will trust. 3 Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall trust. His truth shall be your shield, and buckler. 5 You shall not fear the terror by night; nor because of the arrow that flies by day; 6 nor for the plague that walks in darkness, of the destruction laying waste at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes you shall look and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because You, O Jehovah, are My refuge; if You have made the Most High Your dwelling-place,

The question to ask, is not when or why or how? The question to ask is “where?”

Where is your hiding place? Where is your refuge? Where is your dwelling place?

Is it with the bank manager? The security company? The lottery? Or is it really and truly with the Most High?

Perhaps everything is falling apart, because our securities are in the wrong place. Perhaps our attention is focused in the wrong direction. Instead of focusing around we should focus upwards.

Psa 25:2 O my God, I trust in You; do not let me be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none who wait on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who sin without cause.4 Make me know Your ways, O Jehovah; teach me Your paths. 5 Lead me in Your truth, and teach me; for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long. 6 Remember, O Jehovah, Your tender mercies and Your loving-kindnesses; for they are from eternity. 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

With redirected focus. A new look at and on life, through the eyes of the One who made it all, our worries and our concerns will disappear. Trouble will always follow us, difficulties will always challenge us. But surrender should never be part of our vocabulary or our thoughts.

For “if God is with us, who can be against us?”

The way out of the dry season starts with repentance. “Sorry Father, I have looked elsewhere for my salvation, when I knew, my eyes should have been on you”