I feel like I’m drowning, I have to live – My future depends on it!!

Written by Dana Simms

Sometimes in life, we’re faced with situations that seem impassable. We feel as if we’re enveloped or caged in a vat of water, we feel like we’re drowning. This word, drowning, to drown, what does it mean to you? To me, it’s taunting because I can’t even swim. So how is it that when I’m in these situations, I’m not even in water yet it feels as if I can’t breathe?

My question, therefore, is how do you pass this drowning feeling? How do you live? How do you spiritually survive?

Psalm 118:17 says “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD”.

We see where sometimes we are faced with a fight and we feel as though we can’t overcome it and that’s when we allow the problem to envelop us and pull us away from God and that’s when we begin to drown. We allow our faith and love for the body of Christ to ‘take a swim and drown’, and that’s when the situation worsens.

Have you ever realized that when you do have faith, there comes a relief? Often times we don’t even realize when it is that we have passed the trial that was threatening to ‘drown’ us. In reference to the scripture, we did not die, we overcame, we survived. And that’s what we need to focus on, compare our attitudes in these situations, the ones where we come out ‘alive’, and the ones where we’ve succumbed to our battle wounds.

It doesn’t make sense to constantly add a negative feel to your problems, because speaking negatively only adds to the weight of the situation and pushes you under further, telling yourself that you can’t, “I can’t do this, I can’t manage, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t…” only makes it worse.

Jeremiah 29:11 states “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

We need to remember that we were made for a purpose, and if we allow ourselves to drown and fall away from God, that purpose will not be fulfilled, the life that God has promised us will not come to pass, the future that we hope for will not be manifested.

We all have been given a choice, so what say you? Will you drown? Or will you choose to live and declare the works of the Lord?

Women of Kairos-Women of the Now!!