My Life is A Country Song

My Life is A Country Song

“My truck broke down and my dog just died

My wife ran away, with some other guy

Willie and Waylon and Johnny won’t lie

It’s just another country song”

Just Another Country Song by Ty Christian Wilson

There’s a reason country music is so popular, its so relatable. We’ve all been in a situation where it seems like the hard hits keep coming and might not stop. It’s easy to get down in those times and romanticize everyone else’s lives; “everything seems to workout for them”, “If I had what they had” and “why does this only happen to me?”

It’s easy to fall for the trap of believing that others don’t suffer, at least not like me! We can’t imagine that other people could go through similar circumstances and hold it together, because I can’t! The reality is other people do struggle and there is no life that is void of suffering. Job said, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble” (Job 14:1). This was a reality that Jesus affirmed to his disciples before he left them “In the world you will have tribulation…” (John 16:33).

In these moments of grief I have a hard time seeing the silver lining, but when my life does seem to turn into a country song, I’ve learned something: country songs only last about three minutes. In a moment of distress, we tell ourselves that this will endure forever, but in reality, those moments are relatively brief.

“Weeping may endure for a night,

 But joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5)

I hope you will find encouragement when you struggle in knowing that you’re not alone. You are in the same boat as the rest of us, and if you are in Christ he has already overcome that world of tribulation (John 16:33b).   I hope you find hope in the reality that “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom. 8:18).

I love you

Jonathan