Christian Commentary Encouraging Devotions

Well you know those times

When you feel like there's a sign there on your back

Says I don't mind if ya kick me

Seems like everybody has

Things go from bad to worse

You'd think they can't get worse than that

And then they do

You step off the straight and narrow

And you don't know where you are

Use the needle of your compass

To sew up your broken heart

Ask directions from a genie

In a bottle of Jim Beam

And she lies to you

That's when you learn the truth

If you're going through hell

Keep on going, don't slow down

If you're scared, don't show it

You might get out

Before the devil even knows you're there

Well I been deep down in that darkness

I been down to my last match

Felt a hundred different demons

Breathing fire down my back

And I knew that if I stumbled

I'd fall right into the trap that they were laying, yeah

But the good news

Is there's angels everywhere out on the street

Holding out a hand to pull you back up on your feet

The one's that you've been dragging for so long

You're on your knees

You might as well be praying

Guess what I'm saying

If you're going through hell

Keep on going, don't slow down

If you're scared don't show it

You might get out

Before the devil even knows you're there

Yeah, If you're going through hell

Keep on moving, face that fire

Walk right through it

You might get out

Before the devil even knows you're there

- Rodney Atkins

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our troubles,

with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

When they are troubled,

we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives,

so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation;

Even when we are weighed down with troubles,

it is for your comfort and salvation!

If we are comforted, it is for your comfort,

which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

And our hope for you is firm,

because we know that just as you share in our sufferings,

so also you share in our comfort.

We were under great pressure,

far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death.

We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure,

and we thought we would never live through it.

In fact, we expected to die.

He has delivered us from such a deadly peril,

and he will deliver us.

On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us

as you help us by your prayers.

Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.