Dear despairing young person (5)

Do you ever feel like no one understands you? Maybe something has happened to you and you just feel that no one else gets it, no one is there to support you. Hagar felt a bit like that. She had been badly treated and ended up pregnant. She felt no one would understand, not one would get it, like everyone despised her and so she ran away. She didn’t know where she was going, and she found herself sitting by a well. I guess she was about as low as you can get. And that is when God met her and called her by name. She thought no one understood, but amazingly, even though no one around her understood, God had seen it all, God had heard. He gave her hope.[1]

Hagar was thankful that God had understood her. She said to God “You are the God who sees me.” It was such a relief for her to know that Almighty God saw! He understood. Do you know that He sees you as well? He understands you as well? In the Bible we are told that Jesus “understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.”[2]

I hope that encourages you and gives you hope, that even when you feel like no one understands, God sees and He is willing to listen and offer hope. Why don’t you talk to Him now? Have you got anything to lose in asking Him for help?

God also uses people to help, and as I said before, there’s lots of people who are also willing to listen, you can find out more details of those you can contact in my first letter here.