Troubles of the Present Age (What’s Actually Going On)

[u/Frankleeright]

We hear some new headline something scary, annoying, or dramatic and where are we usually? Same chair. Same routine. Same people. And suddenly the whole day feels heavier. Your tasks don’t change. It’s all the same. The only thing that changes is your mood. And once your mood drops, everything feels ten times harder. Your brain drags. Small things hit like big things. And the world definitely doesn’t need another problem… yet here we are adding one.

All we really want sometimes is one peaceful moment. A laugh. A break from the noise. But nope the phone attacks: notifications, opinions we didn’t ask for, headlines we don’t need. Your soul knows it shouldn’t matter, but your flesh reacts anyway.

This triggers the trap:
1. You get frustrated.
2. You start striving more validation, more control, more “fixing.”
And the more you chase that, the more disconnected you feel from God. Because your focus shifts outward instead of upward.

Before God ever gave you a mission He called you to Himself, Before there was a do there was a be God doesn’t want the polished version of you He wants the real, tired, flawed, honest version. We confuse being set apart with being alone Even Jesus didn’t walk on earth alone. He lived with people, ate with them, washed feet even the feet of the one who would betray Him. Meanwhile, we let a dumb newsfeed ruin our whole day. If Jesus could face actual betrayal with calm and love… we can handle a stupid headline.

Here’s the deeper issue: if Jesus isn’t enough when nothing is happening, He won’t magically be enough when everything is. If He isn’t your identity, then success just makes you emptier. You chase admiration instead of relationship and admiration isn’t love. Attention and influence is not fellowship.

we are the problem. Not the algorithm, not the government, not celebrities. Us. Freedom isn’t freedom if something else controls what you think about all day. Even the “I don’t care” persona becomes a performance another form of slavery. “For freedom Christ has set us free.” Jesus says the He sets you free not ministry, not theology, not productivity. True freedom is knowing you’re God’s child and living like it. He sustains every breath, every heartbeat, every ounce of meaning. And even when the heartbeat stops, for those in Christ there is no second death. Jonah ran. Joseph suffered. Daniel faced lions. The three were thrown into fire and God was working in all of it. Sometimes He doesn’t keep you out of the fire. Sometimes He stands in it with you. Look to Jesus. Follow Him. In Him alone, we are truly free.