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I don't know how many of you have had just one of those days...or how many of you are experiencing "one of those days" today, but I have to confess I am. I know most of you know, but I struggled with depression for a while, and honestly it was all my fault. I harbored resent and was unforgiving towards precious people in my life like my dad. I ended up driving myself straight into depression. I can remember how those days felt. How I would wake up and just feel alone. It reminded me of when I was only about six and I was in Wal-Mart with my mom. I had strayed away from her, and eventually I looked around to see she was no where in sight. I freaked! I had no idea where she was, I probably thought she had left me. However, that couldn't be farther from the truth. She was freaking out just like I was trying to find her kid. Eventually we found each other, and all was well. Now, you might not admit it or realize it but you have or you probably will come to a point or time in your life when you think God was something your parents made up to keep you at church. You can't feel him, you don't know where he is...how could he be real? I am not saying that is what I'm feeling right now. I'm nowhere near that. However, there have been several times when I have wondered that, and there are several people close to me that have recently gone through or are going through these tough feelings. What I am trying to get at is something I mentioned at Young Life Club this week. And that is our God will never leave us. Even though we are SURE he has abandoned ship, even then we are dead wrong. In the Old Testament there is this guy Joshua who takes over Israel when Moses dies. Now this is a pressure filled position. You're the president of God's nation!!! However, God doesn't hang him out to dry. In the very beginning of his "reign" God tells him. "As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5)."Look at that last phrase...now notice the word NEVER!!! That means from the beginning until the end God was with him, and that promise carries on with us. One of the last things Jesus tells his disciples is: "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matthew 28:20)." We are never alone. God is always with us...even to the end of the age. Let's focus on that today.