I'm in a bad way at the moment, very depressed, full of self-hatred and just seriously messed up. My faith has taken an absolute hammering, and I picked up a bible for the first time in ages today, because I just felt I was looking in all the wrong places at the moment.
I ended up reading Matthew 9, and read that great little section where Jesus is talking to the self-righteous religious people who were very cross that he was eating with not-so-nice people.
He told them that if you don't know you're sick, you won't go to a Doctor, and that He hadn't come for the righteous people, but the sinners.
And in what way did He come? Angry and scolding? Nope, He came to eat with, love and finally die with and for them.
Now, I suppose that could sound really preachy, but for the first time in ages, it's like I heard Jesus saying to me that I'd be in bigger trouble if I was kidding myself that I had it all together, and that actually, in my despair and sadness, He's with me.
I just thought it might encourage someone else who was struggling, too. Hope it does.