Perspective on a bad day

I'm listening to an one of my all time favourite songs at the moment. It is called 'There is a Hope' by Stuart Townend, and it is a song based on two chapters in Romans: chapters 5 and 8. Chapter 5 talks of the gospel, what Jesus has done for us on the cross (taking our sins upon Himself and dying a death He did not deserve). And chapter 8 talks of the awesome privelidge and hope we have as Christians because of that gospel. (For more thoughts on chapter 8, and the lyrics to 'There is a Hope', see my eariler post (http://storytimewithaled.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-thoughts-on-romans-8.html)
The past 24 hours or so have been some rough ones. Two job rejections, and a possibility that I have been wasting my time on the boom i have been writing. Prayers about those would be ace!
In the midst of all this though, when times are hard, it is imperative to be reminded of the gospel, that hope we have thanks to the grace of God.
I have (to my complete surprise) recently joined Twitter, and I am currently following the ESV daily (http://twitter.com/esvdaily). Just as an aside, the ESV is the English Standard Version, a very literal translation of the Bible that I fully and warmly recommend to use.
Todays verse that came up on my screen, just as I was feeling so awful and sorry for myself, was the following: "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."-Romans 5:8.
And it's just hit me. No matter how many hard times we face, no matter what is thrown at us, while we were still sinners, that is, active rebels against the God of the Universe, He sent Jesus who is God and man, to die for us.
That is the gospel, the hope that the song reminds us of. As Christians who face hard times, we need to keep that everlasting, non-changing hope in mind. God's truth does not change just because our circumstances do.