{"id":1176739,"date":"2025-12-21T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1176739"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:12:50","slug":"if-no-one-else-understands-know-that-god-always-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/marisa-donnelly\/2025\/12\/if-no-one-else-understands-know-that-god-always-will\/","title":{"rendered":"If No One Else Understands, Know That God Always Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want you to know that God sees you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You walk through your days with your head low, hands balled into fists. Though you try to feign this sense of confidence, you so often fall short. You\u2019ve got it in your mind that you must pretend everything\u2019s alright, put up this fa\u00e7ade. So you close your eyes and take deep breaths. You do yoga, go on long walks, eat healthy food. You try to fill your mind with positivity, try to let go. You swallow the world, try to stomach all that doesn\u2019t feel right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You fill and fill with everything temporary until you\u2019re stuffed, but never satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are desperate, so damn desperate to keep going that sometimes you run without even knowing the direction you\u2019re headed. You long just to feel, to understand, to not have the pain weigh down on you anymore. But you\u2019re so lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I see you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see the way you struggle to keep your head above water, to swim through the current of this life with grace and force. I see how you try to talk to people, to open, to speak without judgment, to laugh instead of cry. But it\u2019s so damn hard. You\u2019re so damn broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see how you keep getting back up, keep believing, keep telling yourself that you will be okay, even in the depths of your mind you barely believe it. I see you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I want you to know that God sees you, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even in the depths, the mistakes, the chaos\u2014God notices your pain. God hears your cries. God loves, opens, and longs to pull you closer to Him. I know sometimes it feels like you\u2019re in this alone, like you\u2019re crying out to nothingness, like you\u2019re pushing with no hope to carry you through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know sometimes it seems like your prayers<\/a> will never be answered, like you\u2019re deserving of all that\u2019s gone wrong, or maybe that you\u2019re not deserving at all and He\u2019s just abandoned you without care. But He hasn\u2019t.<\/em> He\u2019s here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes you just won\u2019t feel Him because you\u2019re focused on what\u2019s wrong<\/em> instead of right<\/em>. Sometimes you just won\u2019t hear Him because you\u2019re listening to the voice in your own head instead of the truth He\u2019s already set in motion. Sometimes He will be so far, when in reality, He knows every single wish, memory, thought, emotion, wrinkle, curve, and crease of your skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are empty right now\u2014emptied by the broken relationships you\u2019ve been in, by the people who have left, by the way your heart is just so tired of feeling less-than-full. You have been running towards closed doors, trying to fill your body with cheap beer and meaningless kisses, with vices and longings that are merely temporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are running from yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want more encouragement for the hard days? Read Rebecca Simon\u2019s books.<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But let God fill your emptiness. Let His love overflow you, overwhelm you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let His truth seep into your bones<\/a> and His promises set your heart on fire. Let your beliefs be strengthened, your hope be renewed. Let your days become bearable, your muscles become stronger, your dreams be restored once again because you are<\/em> worthy of them. Of love. Of beginning again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let God show you how He sees you\u2014a beautiful, imperfect collection of cells that is capable of overcoming every obstacle, with Him by your side.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let God show you how incredible life can be when you let go and trust Him. When you finally let yourself be filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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