All "Jacked Up"

"Jacked Up! was a segment of the half-time show of Monday Night Football on ESPN. Hosted by Tom Jackson, the feature aired from 2003 to 2006. Every Monday night, the show would highlight the five hardest hits of the prior week in the NFL. ..." (From Wikipedia) Here are a few other definitions: Under the influence of stimulants; high; Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured; Reprehensible; ...When something is just really wrong. No rhyme, no reason.

My 9 year old daughter picked up this term at school a few days ago and she has been trying to fit it in many of her sentences.  I laugh as I hear her describe a "jacked up" phone, "jacked up ipod", her leg "jacked up" from basketball, and they funniest ones are when she wants to use the term to describe my ideas or someones' behavior. When she is exploring vocabulary I usually let her work through it to comprehend its' meaning, but this time I  helped a little...explaining that she may not want "jacked up" to be a regular part of her describing vocabulary...lol...and I gave her some alternate choices. 

Thinking on this topic though,  how many times in life do you feel all "jacked up?" Is it possible that you are dealing with addictions in your life that leave you a wreck every weekend, or even make it difficult for you to get through a work week?  Separation, divorce and broken relationships can leave us feeling "jacked up" for sure.  There seem to be no answers when we are going through difficult times.  We are left speechless and feeling like life is just "too hard" to handles.  Death, especially sudden death,  tragedy, and unexplained illness leave so many people feeling like they have no hope, no control, and there really is no rhyme or reason to what is happening to them. Is there an answer? 

Matthew 6:34 says, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." 

The first remedy would be to release our worry.  It only adds to your emotional pain. And the second would be to hand the worry to God.  He sends the Spirit of God to your rescue. 

Romans 8:26 says, "... the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."

If we follow these two steps when we are feeling all "jacked up" the easier it is to pass through the "hell" we are experiencing and on to hope and blessings of abundance and brighter days ahead.  I love Rodney Atkins song,  If your going through  hell keep on moving....because Satan feeds on "jacked up" lives.  If you move quickly through it...He might not even know you were there! The good news is there ARE angels out there to help you get back up on the feet you're dragging!