How to Prepare Yourself for the Worst Day of Your Life

Unfortunately, there are those times in which everything goes wrong, I mean terribly wrong. It is more than frustrating. It is more than disappointing. The worst day of your life means that you feel helpless. You would probably not know how to help yourself because you were in such a deep funk. Is there any way to prepare yourself for when that worst day comes?

Not only should you prepare for the worst day, but you should have an ongoing attitude that sustains you each day. If you live in a world of negativity, anything can make it worse. It does not have to be something so terrible after all. Your attitude on a daily basis must have some type of adjustment. What would greatly help to better your attitude is to be assured that you truly trust Christ. Don’t live like most people in which they give a nod to him. Embed yourself in trust.

Seek to gain control over areas of your life that make you feel helpless already. If you are predisposed to the sensation of helplessness, you are victimizing yourself for what circumstances can come down the pike. Search through your thinking. Look at all the elements of your life where you have an attitude of being helpless already. Surely there are some things that you are not helpless about. Challenge those things so that you see yourself as a victor.

If you’ve already had bad experiences, process them at the time they occur. If you leave them dangling in the back of your head, when something else happens that is bad, you then have a reoccurrence of the original plus the recent bad. Even something as simple as the death of a pet unexpectedly, can add to the difficulties when something worse happens. You have stockpiled badness. Address each event when they occur.

Surround yourself with a healthy support system. This does not mean to be weak and relying on other people for their strength. A healthy support system is an additive to what you already have in place.

Assure yourself that you have an ongoing prayer schedule and stick to it. When you are privately with God, the Holy Spirit will minister to you and intercede in your behalf to the Father. Praying is not just saying a sixty-second ritual. It is where you see yourself in a vital conversation with the person who loves you the most. In the same way you would want to have a healthy relationship with people, you also want to make sure that you have a healthy relationship God.

Try to look at bad things not as a catastrophe but as an event common to all humans. See bad things as something that you will experience. Never, never think of yourself as being under the circumstances when someone asked how you are. Perhaps you have heard people say, “I am okay under the circumstances.” If you are a child of God, you are never under the circumstances. With God’s help you will go through the circumstance. Likely, the bad experience cannot be changed and will be a part of your memory forever. However, the sharp edge of the event will eventually dull if you focus yourself on God and not yourself and not what happened.

Perhaps the worst day of your life is something you can fight back. There may be something you can change. There may be people you can challenge. Be a soldier not a wandering peasant. Examine the worst day by parts and not as a whole. Select one part of the time that you can change or defeat. Put it in the proper perspective that God is always in charge and will not leave you in a place of pain forever. Your worst day is what happened at that very moment. As you move along through life, unfortunately there are other bad things that will happen. However, do not focus on these things! Take the promises of the Bible literal and apply them to yourself. Be a doer of the Word. See what God says as fact. The Apostle Paul said in Romans 8 beginning at verse thirty-five, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, or things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Let God’s love work a miracle in your life before, during, and after the worst day of your life.