Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Hannah Montana's Nightmare - #8285

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Life for Miley Cyrus–a.k.a., pop star, Hannah Montana–hasn’t always been as cool as it is today. In her autobiography, she describes her pre-teen years as “friendless, lonely and miserable.” She says she was “scrawny and short” and some girls she describes as “big and tough” terrorized her; locking her in a bathroom, trying to goad her into fighting them, taunting she would never amount to anything. She lived in fear most days at school. She’s a star now, so she’s not treated that way anymore, but she’s been recycling that garbage. She said, “I didn’t dare forget the struggle. There was a reason for it. I brought that girl with me, and she reminds me to be compassionate, to not hold grudges, to be supportive, to be there for others when I know I’m needed.”

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and hard times can give you a hard heart, if you let it. Or the tough times and tough treatment can give you a tender heart that helps hurting people because you know what it feels like to be hurt. A lot of it depends on whether you bring your pain to God or you turn it inward. The Bible says God is “the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5 ).

God can take the junk you’ve been through and He can make it into your “crud-entials”—the crud of your life that becomes your credentials for being hope in a hurting world. Just don’t let the hard times give you a hard heart.

If you’re in the market for a little more spiritual encouragement like this, I hope you’ll check out our website today. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: 2 Corinthians 1:3-5