A conjunction God uses to show the previous statement is null and void.
The word ‘But’, can mean different things depending on its context from meaning something good to meaning something bad and disappointing. The word ‘But’ normally means that the previous statement doesn’t matter in regard to what is going to be said. This could either be a bad or a good thing to have heard in the middle of conversation to a debt being forgiven or to something not so good is going to happen. For example, a landlord in the potato famine replied to his tenant’s letters of rent forgiveness that he needed the money in order to keep a good precedent. But he gave them a check in order to not just pay their debt, but to also help them through the famine and give them some extra money for themselves. We were once separated from God, BUT, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and the cross we can now live with God in his Kingdom with a land flowing of milk and honey he promises us.
When we face troubles from not just the world, but also eternally with spiritual battles along with mental and emotional battles, we trust that God will get us through. We see the troubles that lie ahead, But we are to trust that God will guide us through and make us stronger on the other end of this battle. We trust that he can and will lead us to the pastures he has for us in order to keep us safe, warm, feeling loved, and to help us obey and carry out his commands. With these battles will come temptations from the world to fall back into your sinful nature and ways. But we have a God that will give us strength and a peace that surpasses all of our understandings knowing he will take care of us.
The temptations of life will try to get us to go backwards in our faith, backsliding to a point where we feel lost and hopeless again. But trust in God knowing he will take care of you, trust in God that he will provide whatever loss of joy, hope, and faith you had, and trust in God that he will love you no matter what. We are told numerous times and promised that nothing can or will separate us from God’s love, we just need to repent and ask him for forgiveness knowing that everything will be okay. The world will tell you to drink away feelings, go have cheap sex with random people on the street, BUT, we are supposed to know God will take care of what we need and heal us from any hurt. We are to stand clear of what the world will tell us to do knowing that it is not the best at all because the world will lead to death not just physically, but also spiritually.
So, run to God for whatever you need, yes, we are sinners, and we all deserve hell, but Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior made it possible to live with God through his blood being shed. 1 Corinthians 6:11 reassures that again yet that we are sinners, but we are sanctified and washed by the blood of Christ. So run to God, know that his arms are open regardless of what you have done even if it feels like he is angry with you, he will always love you. Go to him with anything that is on your mind no matter how happy or upsetting it may be, he wants to relieve you of it. And remember he will always love you and may God bless you and keep you, Amen!