God, I Can’t Do This Anymore

Finding God's strength when you have nothing left

You wake up and your chest feels tight before your feet hit the floor. The weight is there before you even open your eyes. The phone buzzes. The world is waiting. Work. Bills. People who want answers you don’t have. A mess you didn’t plan for. Something you said you’d fix that’s now completely out of control. You can barely breathe.

You know the verse, “Do not worry about tomorrow.” You’ve heard it a hundred times. But right now, it feels impossible. Because tomorrow looks like a mountain you don’t have the strength to climb.

That’s when you have to remember what Jesus was really saying. He wasn’t handing out motivational quotes. He was trying to keep His followers from breaking under the pressure of life. They were poor, oppressed, uncertain, one crisis away from losing everything. And He looked at them, not the rich, not the powerful, and said, “Your Father knows what you need.”

That’s the point you can’t forget. God knows. He knows the deadlines, the debt, the disappointment, the betrayal, the fear, the loneliness that hits when everyone else has gone home. He knows the weight you carry that nobody else sees. He’s not ignoring it. He’s already in it.

You’re not meant to handle the whole future at once. That’s why He divided life into days. Because His grace comes in days. One sunrise. One sunset. One step at a time.

So, if all you can do is get through today, good. That’s all He asked. You don’t have to solve everything. You just have to stand. And if you can’t stand, then sit in His presence and breathe. Because the God who holds the stars in place still knows how to hold you together.

He never said, “Don’t plan.” He said, “Don’t worry.” That’s different. Planning is stewardship. Worry is control. And control will choke your faith until you’re too tired to even pray.

So, here’s how you fight back. You talk to Him honestly. You tell Him the truth, not the polished version, the real one. “Lord, I’m scared. I’m angry. I feel lost. I don’t see how this ends.” That’s not weakness. That’s worship. Because it means you still believe He’s listening.

You stop trying to figure everything out. You deal with what’s in front of you. You keep showing up, even when your hands shake. You handle today’s problems with today’s grace. And when tomorrow comes, He’ll give you new strength for that too.

And when your mind starts to race, “What if this fails? What if I lose everything?” you answer it out loud, “Then God will meet me there.” Because He will.

You are not abandoned. You are not forgotten. You are not behind. You’re just human, and that’s exactly who God came for.

He’s not waiting for you to get stronger. He’s waiting for you to get still. To remember that the same Jesus who spoke “Peace, be still” to a raging storm can speak that same peace into the storm inside you.

One day, when you look back, you’ll realize the days that nearly broke you were the days God was actually building something in you, trust that can’t be shaken, faith that’s real, peace that isn’t built on circumstances but on Him.

So, stop trying to live tomorrow. You only ever have today. And today, even in your mess, your confusion, and your exhaustion, is still a day God has decided to walk beside you.