Doubting God
As I sat watching the tragic event of Las Vegas unfold and remembering Hurricane Maria, Harvey, and Irma, and the earthquake in Mexico and Kim in Korea...My goodness this is a lot of bad I kept thinking to myself! I started thinking, "what the heck God?!" I mean my mom's Death hit me VERY hard and I was doubting God, but now this? This has got to have a lot of believers Doubting. Unfortunately, that is what Satan wants which puts him at an advantage. Which infuriates me so I started wondering how do I get the upper hand on my doubt? I look Up and look to God and really ask some hard questions. Satan really does not like this and I personally think he preys on these questions.
I think Satan looks at this questioning as a weakness and just can't wait to pounce. So I decided I would try to Look at it from God's perspective which meant really digging in to my quiet time. Really asking hard questions and crying out to God and asking the hard question, "WHY?"
After Irma hit the beautiful islands I kept thinking....what a terrible loss of life! WHY? AND SHE WAS STILL ON HER WAY TO FLORIDA WHICH MEANT MORE LOSS! WHY GOD!?
Then it hit me! All loss of life is terrible. A child dying of cancer is tragic! It should be against the law for a child to die before their parent. Someone getting killed in a sudden accident is tragic! There is no time to say good bye. My mom, after 80 years on this earth dying, tragic! I lost my best friend! And all these people in the wake of these storms or bad dictators. Tragic! It is all bad. AND newsflash, People die everyday!
INTERESTING FACT: Did you know that 154,000 on average die everyday! And guess what...God knows EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!
GOD is aware of EVERY single person who suffers and who dies EVERY moment of EVERY day in EVERY nook and cranny of the world. So while I sat there thinking how unfair and why is it happening, I had to remind myself of the mom whose child died of Cancer, or the Friend whose best friend took their life through drugs and alcohol, or the Wife whose husband died in an accident, or the loss of life to Malaria, to Heart attacks, to head injuries to whatever else...you get the point. It is ALL bad and it ALL seems unfair!
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE THE ONE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM and it is your loved one who died.
It is so easy to Doubt God during these times, but what we NEED to remember and what we NEED to hold on to is God created this universe. God gave us life and He determines the length of life for everyone. He is simply taking back what is HIS. WE ARE HIS.
When we start to doubt God we are letting Satan win and we cannot do this. We are God's children. When we are suffering we need to try as hard as we can to see it from God's perspective. Sometimes we cannot see God's perspective until well after the Storm is gone and honestly there are storms we may NEVER know God's perspective until we get to heaven. So how do we deal? How do we not doubt?
FAITH MY FRIEND! FAITH AND TRUST THAT GOD IS INVOLVED IN ALL OUR SUFFERING. WE MUST HOLD ON TO THE FACT THAT OUR SUFFERING IS NEVER MEANINGLESS. OUR SUFFERING ALWAYS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH GOD'S ETERNAL PURPOSE.
I do realize that this is so hard to understand. We are after only human. So my dear friend, when suffering reaches such an intensity in your life that seems senseless and you just want to give up....it is then and only then that we MUST CLING TO GOD IN FAITH!
DEFINITION OF FAITH: complete trust or confidence in something or someone: trust, belief, confidence, conviction
So as life unfolds and we suffer tragic events, suffering, and losses.....let us never let go of our faith and God because God will never let Go of you or me.
xo,
Amy
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