Why?? Oh why??

Jeremiah 29:11-13- 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

When we hit the lowest times of our lives, no matter what it is that has brought us there, we more than likely question God as to why me?? Why are these things happening to me?? These verses come to mind and there is so much truth to them.. God has a BIG plan for us.. Plans to prosper us, to give us HOPE and a future.. Not to harm us. When these hard times come, is when we truly do soul searching. When we seek Him with ALL our hearts, we will find Him.. God knows.. He understands and loves us so.. He understands our questioning.. 

But we also have to keep in mind, the devil also seeks to destroy us.. He can use the trying times in our lives to get us to turn against God. We HAVE to be always seeking God and turning to God instead of away from Him. He is the only one that can offer us hope and a future.. Our future is in Heaven with Him. Our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. 

When life came crashing down for me, I tried everything else to deal with the pain inside. Nothing worked because Jesus is the ONLY one who can take that pain and turn it into something good. He is the ONLY one that can be the balm on your wounded soul. The other things that we turn to are not going to fix the issue inside.. The issue inside is that Jesus is the ONLY one that can fill that hole and that can heal and offer you hope. Why did all these things happen to me?? Because Satan set out to destroy me just as he is trying with you. But God had bigger plans.. Plans to prosper me, plans to offer me hope that I had never known before. Our life on Earth is but a vapor compared to what is yet to come. Is it so bad to suffer a little for God but to gain alot?? 

When you hit what you feel is the lowest point of your life, who will you follow and seek?? Jesus the one who offers you a life eternal with Him and joy in Him or will you follow Satan who offers nothing but destruction??

 

Storms of Life

It is quite obvious we can not get through life without going through some storm in our lives.. When the storm is raging and we feel like we are going to go overboard, instead of bailing water right and left and looking to everyone else for our help, we need to look to Jesus for our help as He is the ONLY one that can calm the storms. He never will leave us.. ANYTHING that drives us to the foot of the cross and closer to God is worth EVERYTHING you will have to go through in life.. Our darkest hour can become Gods moment of power.. He wants to take us through the storms so we can know Him better and reflect His glory even more.. God knows us better than we know ourselves and He knows what is best.. Jesus is our Anchor that will hold through the storm.. When we look to other things, other people rather than Jesus is when we start sinking.. When did Peter start to sink on the water?? When he took His eyes off Jesus.. It is no different with us. We will sink if we take our eyes off Jesus.

If we never had a storm how would we learn to grow?? We need rain in our lives to grow our faith and trust in Jesus.. Just like the flowers and trees need rain, so do we. When they don’t have rain they get all brown and dried up. So it is in our lives so many times.. When we are going along smoothly, we tend to not strive as much to seek God. God can not show us what He is capable of if life is always peachy.. 

As James 1: 2-4 says: Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

I don’t know about you but I would much rather be mature in my faith and know God well and watch what He does in the storms than to remain a baby and never see what He is capable of. What are a few trials and storms compared to what all we will have for eternity in Heaven?? I think I can endure the short time here with whatever happens compared to eternity with Jesus!!