I am struck by the contrast between those I know who are reveling in God's blessings this season, and those who don't know where God could be as their hearts break.
Here is the question of the ages.
How can One God crush and prosper with equal Love?
How can I call it a blessing when God floods my heart with joy, while He allows the bottom to fall out of my friend's life? How can I rejoice when my own life shatters to bits?
Oh, but He is Good!
He is.
This world that we live in is cascading into despair. Those around us embrace the whirlwind of their own consequences.
The real miracle is that God sustains any of us at all.
The wonder is that God upholds us, while all around us swirls into selfishness and sin.
The amazing this is that God sweeps our horrific disasters into beauty that is useful and inspiring.
My world may be demolished by someone else's wicked choices...more likely I will suffer from my own. Circumstances may befall me that suck the wind from my sails. Yet, God is Good.
It won't always be like this, you know.
One day there will be no more dying, or crying, or pain. No more financial worries, no more divorce, no more hunger, no more fear, no more unwanted children. All that is worst in the world as we know it will fade from view. And all that is best in this world will surprise us by it's smallness in view of eternity.
I'm pensive today. A little blue. So many people have real problems, and mine seem so trivial.
3 comments:
Kelly,
I don't understand it either. He is good, and He always does the right thing. He allows testing, trials to come. We may not see it, understand it, but it is for our good. I don't like it, or understand it. But then I don't see what He sees.
Hope you have a merry Christmas.
Thanks for the comment on my blog!
jim
We do live in a world of cosequences. For the choices we or others around us have made. God is with us even amongst the consequences.
Sorry you are feeling blue today. Sometimes life can get overwhelming. That is why we have the cross. To leave our burdens there so that we don't have to carry that heavy load.
God always seems to present us with the opportunity to understand that others can always be found whom are worse off. Be it financially, medically, physically, mentally or even spiritually - God provides not only for our own humility but also opportunities to witness that may never have been there before.
I know when I had sunk as low as I thought humanly possible - God showed me how much worse it could have been. Made my burden much lighter to bear!
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