When You’re Down To Nothing …
Today’s Five Minute Friday prompt word provided by Lisa Jo’s team is: Nothing
Ready?
Set?
GO!
Another saying that is familiar to us all is: When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something.
When you’re at your absolute lowest point in life and you feel like things are falling down around you. You feel the weight of the world on your shoulder and yet responsibilities continue to crowd in on you and threaten to steal the last little bit of sanity you had left. When you’re beat down and feel as if you can not get back up. That’s when it happens. God takes it all … He wants you to bring every care and concern to Him. He is the only one that truly has the answer any way. He knows every little thing that is troubling you even when you cannot find the words to express them. He hears your heart speaking when no words are uttered. That is when He reaches down His strong and mighty hand and turns all of your feelings of nothingness into something beautiful, magical, and beyond anything you ever thought possible. Slowly, He begins to turn things around. It may not happen over night. It may try your patience until they’ve run out or have run thin, but He’s at work in your life. When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something. Our job is to take it to God in prayer, trust and believe in Him, and He will do the rest. It’s called having Faith and Believing … give your feelings of being a nothing to Him and watch Him turn it into the most precious something you could ever imagine.
STOP!
May 30, 2014 @ 12:07 am
I love this quote: “When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something.” I am going to remember this. Loved reading your FMF!
May 30, 2014 @ 7:37 am
Thank you, Jennifer! So happy to have you visit with us!!
May 30, 2014 @ 1:31 am
Nothing… quite the choice of words for this Friday. It is a word that can mean complete emptiness or be used to empathize in the extreme a certain situation that happens to you. I think I might be able to use it in both contexts.
There is nothing that can compare to the feeling of helplessness you get while you sit holding your mother’s hand during the last few hours before she is taken into God’s hands. There is nothing that compares to the empty loneliness you feel because you are the only family member there for her and all you want to do is to run away to escape the pain you are feeling, but you have to dig deep into your soul for the strength that God gave you because in the end there is nothing more important than you being there for her at this time. As you sit with her watching the minutes that seem to take hours to pass, you feel nothing inside your heart as there seems to be a great empty void of helplessness growing inside because you so want to be able to do something for her and you can’t.
I see my five minutes are up.
~The Quiet Computer Guy
May 30, 2014 @ 7:38 am
I’m so sorry you ever had to go through that, sweetie. I can relate in a way as we were there with my grandma in her final hours. My heart and prayers are with you.
May 30, 2014 @ 1:58 am
Hi there! Visiting with the #fmfparty today, and appreciate your words. We feel we have nothing, or even are nothing… but we give God everything – all of it/us – and he accepts us as precious. It really is more about offering ourselves as we are than drumming up some superstar offering to impress him. Thanks for your words today.
May 30, 2014 @ 7:39 am
Thank you for what you said, Ruth, and for visiting with us! We love seeing the FMF crew reaching out!
May 30, 2014 @ 8:49 am
Ahhh. your words were a perfect reminder for me tonight and a balm for my frazzled soul. These words: “That’s when it happens. God takes it all.”
I love the thought that God waits until we realize that we have nothing without Him- then he does the work of taking our nothing and replacing it with His everything. Great job with this post! Happy Friday! #FMF
May 30, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
Thank you so much, Karen! I appreciate all that you said!
May 30, 2014 @ 10:37 am
Amen. God is always at work in our lives, even when we can’t see it. He makes our brokenness into something beautiful … maybe not what we expect or even what we think we want … but something beautiful, nonetheless.
May 30, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
This is so very true, Melissa. Just recently I posted an article entitled You’re Not Broken, You’re Beautiful. It relays a similar message to people that feel they’re broken by what they’ve been through in life. Between that and what is written in this article, it is my hope that they will touch people’s hearts.