What is your rock bottom?
Is it failing a test
Losing a friend
Not making the team
Or getting into the school
Failing a class or even out of school
Getting kicked out of the house
Having your family reject you
Is it spending another day or week on the couch numbing out the world
Eating another tub of ice cream
Binging another Netflix series
Is it another party you don’t remember
Waking up in someone else’s bed
Is it another night you don’t remember
Or not wanting to remember another night of dumb mistakes
Or is it dancing for money
Twirling around on a stage with hardly any clothes on
With a man who spins you around night after night
Selling your body
Or using an old man for money
Is it conning people
Fooling them to do what you want
Pushing the ones who love you deeply away
Seeing people for money and that’s all
Is your rock bottom going to a strip club
And spending your money on women
A lonely life lead to using women or men for their bodies
Or is it spending another lonely night watching porn to satisfy that itch
Is your rock bottom when someone takes advantage of your body
Waking up not knowing what happened yet knowing exactly what happened
When every ounce of your soul feels like it is scattered on the floor
Your body abused by the world
Is it a positive pregnancy test
Terrified
Alone
Or is it a miscarriage
Maybe an abortion
Free yet trapped in regret
Is your rock bottom divorce
Or lack there of
Stuck in a marriage
Or even just at home
Verbally, physically abused again & again
Is your rock bottom selling drugs
Getting caught
Going to jail
Overdosing again
Being held as a ransom for money
On the run once again
Having no where to call home
Is your rock bottom murder
Trapping kids to sell their organs for money
Raping someone because that’s what happened to you-all you know
Is it going back to those friends who get you into trouble
Going back to that life you tried to leave
In a gang
Trapped
Is your rock bottom your kids not wanting anything to do with you
Your family running away from you
Alone
A prayer I have continued to pray this month is for the girls and customers in the dance bars we go to is that they hit rock bottom.
That they hit their specific rock bottom.
That rock bottom where people run to Jesus.
That rock bottom when you crave change.
That rock bottom when you know there must be something else.
Something more to this life.
To this broken world.
This is why I’ve been praying this. Not because I want these beautiful humans to hurt-but because rock bottom is what it takes for most to meet Jesus. When people finally let Him in to piece things back together.
John 4:1-30
The woman at the well. She was divorced five times and living with a man who wasn’t her husband. She went to the well hoping she wouldn’t run into anyone-she is Samaritan. Jews didn’t speak to Samaritans at this time. She just wanted to get water and go as fast as she could.
She was left five times, not just by husbands-who knows how many men-rather people-rejected her. Told her she wasn’t good enough. Unworthy of their love. She was trying to find herself in men. Humans. Bound to fail time and time again.
This is where she met Jesus. In the scorching heat. In the middle of the day. At a well.
Her rock bottom was 5 marriages and countless boyfriends later. Finding her worth in her body and whom she was with.
Jesus saw her. He knew her. Her soul. Her heart. Her mistakes. Her beauty. He made her and desires a relationship with her.
Jesus called her out, gracefully of course.
He met her where she was at. At the well-her rock bottom.
And then he started a relationship with her. A friendship. He pulled her out of her mess, out of the well, when she thought there was nothing better in this life for her.
Are you at your rock bottom?
Are you close to it?
What would rock bottom be for you?
What would make you turn around and run towards Jesus?
Towards your maker.
Your creator.
Your Heavenly Father.
If you’re at the well, trying to hide-know Jesus is there. You just have to look up.
He sees you. He knows you. All you’ve done. Every mistake. All of the good, the bad, the dreamy & the ugly.
He wants to save you.
To keep you from hitting rock bottom.
Look up.
He’s there.
