Imagine this…
After a 9 months of anticipation, you and your spouse give birth to a beautiful baby girl. All checks out fine. You’re excited, she’s as beautiful as can be. Then hours later you realize that at the exact hour your daughter was born, your cousin was found dead, in his home from a brain aneurysm.
Imagine this…
You’ve just graduated medical school and married the man of your dreams. Now you’re thrilled to move onto an exciting chapter of your life. You move to a new city on the other side of the country, excited about the countless adventures you and your spouse will have as you begin your new family. 4 weeks into your new adventure, your dad(who moved with you to be close) suddenly dies.
It seems to me that many times our greatest joys in life can come at a time that is followed by our greatest sorrows. Some times these sorrows seem to come out of no where, and we begin to question, to doubt ourselves and what is real.
It’s tempting in times of sorrow to get angry, get mad, get frustrated with God.
“WHY ME!!!! WHY THEM OH GOD?”
Our world is full on imperfect situations and broken lives.
Both of the stories above happened in my family in the last 4 months. As we walk through them together as a family, I am only reminded that our life here on earth is temporary, this is not our home, Heaven is what we where created for.
The truth is that it’s these challenging times, not the easy going times in life that mold us and grow us as people. You see if there where no hard times in life, we would never grow, we would just exist. It’s the challenging times that edge away at our ego’s and preconceived ideas to equip us with wisdom for the future.
Sometimes we never know when that equipping will be used. I encourage each of you to have faith friends, that the hard times will be useful in the future.
This week a good friend of mine had a situation similar to my own above. After months of anticipation, they gave birth to a handsome baby boy, only to realize that the big guy has trouble breathing when he eats. Dr’s do dozens of tests and still cannot figure out why.
How are we to feel in these moments of despair? “It’s a CHILD God! This helpless little person….”
As I was texting to encourage my brother in Christ, I was prompted to share the truth I’m blogging about today. I wrote:
“It’s the hard moments that equip us to be useful people. In the easy times, most of us learn nothing”
The imperfections in our world are just evidence of the SIN in our world. The world was not always this way. God first created it perfect, it was when we decided to reject God and turn away from his love that we chose to SIN and bring upon the world we live in today.
That’s my word to you today. If you’re facing challenges and moments of pure despair, go to GOD!
Cry out to the One who understands, Jesus Christ the creator of all things! He is the one who has already won the war, the one who gathers up the pieces of our broken lives and loves us enough to stand with us, in spite of ourselves and our own shortcomings, to sanctify us so God the father can welcome us into eternal life with Him!
Romans 3:24 says ‘And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus’
Know that even now if you are in despair because you don’t know if heaven is your home, the bible says ALL of us have sinned and fallen short of being accepted by God, it’s only through receiving Jesus Christ and faith in Him that we can be saved. If you have not made a decision to pray and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior of your life, I encourage you today to do that. He’s here, loving you in spite of everything in your world, in spite of you. He loves you anyway, don’t push Him away.