Like Sheep Having No Shepherd

Here's a challenge. What do you do as a believer when everything is going wrong. I am in a position to mentor a young Christian who's been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit now for a couple of years. At first things went very well, the freshness of the new birth was exhilarating. But then problems crept in, jobs were lost, bills couldn't be paid, no Christmas for the kids, into a homeless shelter. What about "I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging for bread." Yet here it is. A blind beggar cries out in the streets of Jericho "Son of David, Have mercy on me!". What is going on? What do you say? "I don't have any answers, but I know a God who knows the end from the beginning and who holds this young man's life in his hands. What do I say? Just that. And perhaps this is how God is teaching your children that you have faith and don't give up, don't become bitter as your father did and never shared his salvation with you. What about grace and mercy Theophilus? It's there, I hold on to that even when I can't see it, even when it's years into the future. Hold on when you're in the pit and in Pharaoh's prison. Don't lose heart, don't stop praying even though the heavens seem as brass. At the appointed time (KAIROS) (in due season) we shall reap if we faint not. The mark of a Christian is not that we don't fall down, it is that we get up, and continue getting up as many times as it takes.
Matthew 9:36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."

I think the laborer is me. I've been charged to feed His sheep and tend His lambs. I can't do it. But He can through me.