Sadness and sadness are the great levellers of life. They influence each of us differently.
Sometimes entire nations are affected. We were appalled by the devastation in Rwanda and Bosnia in 1994. And smaller-scale catastrophes like accidents, diseases, family dissolutions, and financial difficulties affect us all. Despite our own positive tendencies, sadness affects us all.
However, there is another aspect to this. We never lose hope, no matter how awful our lives may be, no matter if we are prone to depression and despair rather than happiness and joy.
This is so because life is not a series of coincidental events. The spiritual side of life can constantly be uplifted by the compassion, mercy, and grace of God.
Consider Lamentations 3 as an illustration.
Even though this section is drenched in the suffering of the Jerusalem residents, there is yet hope. The author incorporated mankind's best hope for a reason to live on—God's enormous love—among the details of the city's invasion, which included accounts of widespread bloodshed and destruction. The writer used God's compassion, constancy, goodness, and salvation to combat the suffering and melancholy (vv. 22–26).
It's amazing! God will never abandon us in despair, no matter what we may be going through.
Nobody who has faith in God is without hope. When tragedy strikes hard and snatches your days, when trouble tries to rob you of your very breath,
Remember that Christ bore the pain of death; He gives us hope and is deserving of all the praise we can muster.
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