Many of us have gone through tough times in our lives and probably several times, especially the longer we’ve lived. I’m 71 years old, so I can say I’ve gone through many tough times in my life! Thank God He has brought me and my husband through those tough times and brought us to the mountain tops! 

Tough times can be many different things: health issues, money problems,  relationship problems, and marital problems. All of these problems can leave us overwhelmed! What do we do when we have one of  these problems? Do we try and solve them ourselves? Usually if we do, we only make them worse. We need to go to the best problem solver we have, our Lord Jesus! 

Ladies, I have been there many times in our 52 years of marriage. My husband graduated from Hyles-Anderson College. I had a baby about six weeks later and a couple weeks later my husband took a position as Assistant Pastor in a church. Because of some doctrinal differences that came out after being there for a couple months, we had to leave. 

That was the beginning of the tough times and trials we went through. My husband has been an assistant pastor in many churches across the US and filled many positions in those churches. Many things happened along the way and it  would have been so easy to become bitter and quit serving the Lord. But, ladies, we learned to keep our eyes on Jesus and not on people. People are human and they will fail you. Jesus never fails us!! He is always faithful!!

Lamentations 3:22-23 “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” 

God called my husband to pastor a church in 2005. We are still at that church. We have been through many tough times, a lot of them have been my health. God has been faithful. One of the first verses he gave me are Proverbs 3:5-6 

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

I am so thankful that God has promised to never leave us nor forsake us. About two months ago, my husband saw his neurologist because our sons were thinking he may have dementia. By things we told the doctor, he thought it was possible, so he put him on a mild pill for it. He had him have a brain scan. (An MRI would have been better but my husband has a pacemaker, so he can’t have one).  He also had a cognitive test and sleep study test. We went back Monday, the 23, to see his doctor for the results. He has sleep apnea and didn’t do well on the cognitive test, so he increased his medicine, talked about the dementia and said probably Alzheimer’s, but hard to be positive since he can’t have an MRI. 

This has been the hardest thing for me, but I am trusting the Lord to help us through it. 

Isaiah 55:8 says “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”

We all need to have verses we can claim and lean on through our tough times. God is always there, waiting for us to call on Him and ask Him for His help. Jeremiah 33:3 says “Call unto me and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”