Are you brusied and battered...

God is so good! I read a post the other day about how when you feel like you can't hold on anymore, or when things just seem too hard to understand, is when God is about to show up and show out! BUT only when we seek Him and seek His guidance and only then. We can't keep trying to figure things out on our own and expect things to go well. Never will happen! Our minds, our flesh and the devil will just mess that all up! God is always the answer! Our life lessons are what make us special and unique. If we always had a perfect life, and we were always the center of the universe then what good would we be to Him?! It's the people that work hard, pray hard, crash big, and never give up that make a difference for Him. Where are you in this?
1Peter 5 1-11
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
11 To him [be] glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.