I've been trying to find a nice, upbeat everything-is-possible way of saying this, but I can't, so this post is short. (This post will be themed around Christianity, so feel free to not read on if you don't want to.)
Sometimes, things happen that we don't understand. Sometimes, those things change our lives. Sometimes they make our lives horrible. Sometimes they make us so happy and come so suddenly that we can't understand what the heck is going on.
Even if we see God in the equation, things are still so confusing. Is what I'm going through God's will? Really? If it is, why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Our human characteristics make that we always want neat answers and to put everything, even our lives into a box. In doing so, we often want to submit God to the same treatment.
And it just doesn't work that way. God is infinite and all-knowing, and often the things He does defies our understanding. Even an explanation won't help, because our perspectives are so limited that even if He explained everything step by step, He'd lose us along the way.
So if we can't understand, what then?
Then we pray. Then we have faith. Then we trust.
Goodness. It's so hard even to write. Because even now, things are going on in my life that I don't understand and can't control, and those three things aren't easy for me to do. Okay no praying is easy. The trust bit? Not so much.
Our faith falters and as I mentioned in last week's post, we often forget to trust. So it's a fortunate thing that God loves us anyway, and won't desert us. And no matter what, He'll give us a way to get through and/or over our difficulties.
But often the first step is to stop trying to understand and start having faith.
Are you struggling with anything at the moment? You don't have to specify what that thing is. Just let me know and I'll pray for you. In return, I hope you'll pray for me and my family too, because the spectre of 2014 just doesn't seem to want to stay dead and I'm so, so very tired of fighting its many forms.
5 comments:
Sometimes we don't understand until much later...then we realized it all worked out after all. Maybe sometimes things just happen to us to make us tougher and stronger? Or to appreciate all of the good things we have?
I think you're right, Stephanie. The purpose might eventually become clear, but usually not while we're in the situation we have to grapple with.
I've come to understand that we aren't meant to understand everything. I just trust God has a plan for me.
Hugs
Kelly, I agree with you.
*Hugs Sandra.*
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