A new attitude

I feel like lately I have been trying to get people to feel sorry for me because of what I am going through right now. It usually worked, until this weekend. I was talking to a friend and trying to get her to feel feel sorry for me about this one situation that I am going through right now and it didn't work. Then I started thinking "Was I really trying to get her to feel sorry for me about this? Have I been trying to get everyone to feel sorry for me? Am I that desperate?" Then I started asking myself why I had been trying to get everyone to feel sorry for me, and I really didn't really realize why until last night. Duff was not there so he had gotten one of his friends, Kelly, to come and preach for him for a few weeks. Anyway, Kelly was talking about football and how when someone gets hit hard they still get back up.. or don't. Then he went on to saying how when we get hit hard with situations in life we need to get back up. A couple months ago I got hit hard with a few things and I never really got back up. I might have sat up, but I never fully got back up until last night. The past couple months I felt like I have been "stuck in a pit stop" as Kelly says, because I felt like I didn't the courage, the faith, the will, the power and the strength to get up and trust God to heal me and make everything better. I also felt like I didn't have the faith to trust that God had the situation under control and everything happens for a reason and He knows what is going to happen every second of the day. He knows what you are thinking right this very second, He knows what you will be doing and will be saying in 5 years, He knows your deepest and darkest secrets and He also knows weather or not you take the time to care for your neighbor. Last night I realized that I can get up with God's help and only with God's help. I now have the courage to take a stand against this world and everything that it may throw my way, only because I know that God is my fortress, my shield and my protection. My faith in God right now is I think stronger than it has ever been. I am now more willing than ever to get back up and take a stand against this world and all the crap that it may throw my way. Through God I have the power to withstand and overcome so many temptations that I may have. I am now stronger in Christ, so now if I get hit hard, I will be able to stay standing because God has given me the strength. One thing that I have learned over the years, is that I can do NOTHING and I am NOTHING without God! God truly fulfills me and all my desires. God alone is the only one that can do that!!