Everything is against me

https://odb.org/2023/09/05/everything-is-against-me

There are times when everything seems to be against us. Nothing is going well. We don’t wish for that, of course. We want everything to be for us, to be smooth. We want our affairs to be normalised – not dramatic, not drastic. We want things to just go on a regular and even rhythm. For example, if we save RM1,000 a month, we will have RM12,000 in a year. Unfortunately, sometimes, in the quest to gain something a little out of ordinary, we lose too much because we put in too much. That’s the psychology of how scams and other lures work. They appeal to and attract our inner desire to have more in order to take from us what we already have. The idiom, “a bird in hand is better than two in the bush,” is apt.

In the case of Jacob, Joseph was dead (as recounted by his brothers), his other son, Simeon, was held hostage and in return he needed to bring Benjamin to the Lord of that faraway land to get back Simeon. Jacob lamented that everything’s against him. See Genesis 42.

If everything is against us, the way forward is to bow down humbly before God and seek His counsel on what to do next and do what it takes for Him to be on our side. Get God on our side (or rather, move over to God’s side) and rebuild our lives from there. Then we will see that everything will be on our side, and we will soar high again with wings like that of eagles! The LORD is our answer and the way forward. Go back to Him. Repent of our sins and seek His forgiveness. Don’t repeat our past mistakes and follies again. In most cases, we are where we are because of our own doing.

In Romans 8:31, Paul reminded the Romans – if God is for us, who can be against us? No one can out-give or out-gun the Almighty God, the creator of the heavens and earth and everything on it and above and below it. The power of God surpasses all powers on heaven or earth. If heavens doors open, the blessings are plentiful bordering on the infinite!