CURRENT THEME: BREAK OUT AND LIVE! (For feedback or suggestions about specific themes in this series, send me an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

By Benescke Janse van Rensburg

A reader wrote to me last week: “I am desperate. Every decision I take ends in a dead end. I want to quit on life. Please Help.”

Do you feel like this reader today? Do you feel as if you are standing in a dark room with the walls closing in on you?

A few weeks ago, I asked listeners during my radio show to tell me about their biggest surprise. I received numerous interesting, funny SMS messages. Among the messages were a more serious one from Adriaan. He wrote: “My surprise was to hear God's voice when I wanted to commit suicide. His words were: ‘My child, if you do this today, you are robbing Me from a chance to work in your life.’ Till this day I see His hand active in my life.”

The enemy’s strategy is to make us believe that there is no way out of a crisis we encounter. That is a lie. With God there is always hope and a way out. Listen to the Psalmist’s words in Psalm 40:1-3: “I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground . . . He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the LORD.”

Also in Isaiah 43:2,16 we read: “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. . . Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters.”

What is your “pit of despair” today? Did you receive a bad medical report? Do you not know where your next meal will come from? Is your marriage falling apart? Do you have a crisis at work? Or do you feel like the reader as if everything you try ends in a dead end?

With God there is always hope and a way out. He made a path through the mighty waters for the Israelites. He worked in Adriaan’s life when he allowed Him to do it. There is no limit to his ability in your life and crisis. He not only stops the walls from closing in on you; He creates a door in that room for you to leave the dark behind as you walk towards a bright new life. Let’s break out and trust God. He wants to put a new song in your heart. God bless.

Father God, thank you that I can speak to you about every challenge in my life. Help me to put my trust in you with the knowledge that You can make a way where there seems to be no way. I ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen