So one thing that I've been noticing thats coming up more and more lately is the whole idea of people suffering, with one thing or another, and how God lets this happen. To me it comes down to a persons faith to question this. It kills me so much to hear people using that as an excuse to not believe in God because so many people are hurting or something happened to them in their life where they went "where is God now?" It just seems rediculous to me...cuz I dont understand how people have to question that sort of stuff. Stuff happens for a reason and you move on, deal with it and figure out what good comes out of it. I really truly dont understand how stuff like that can effect a persons faith. The crap in the world is going to be there no matter what so wouldnt you like to believe that there is a God that will help you through it all? I'm not going to tell you it is going to be nice and easy no matter what now cuz you have God but I am telling you that it will be easier.
Moral of the story:
Just don't try to understand everything and just be happy. Don't let stupid things make you question your faith.
Moral of the story:
Just don't try to understand everything and just be happy. Don't let stupid things make you question your faith.
3 comments:
Everyone deals with pain differently. And it often takes a lot for them to just keep going. Yes suffering has turned people off from God because he is a good and caring god and terrible things continue to happen. It's the fact that he is still there and the reassurance that every thing's going to be alright that is often forgotten.
I mean, everyone has had that instance where they became so focused on this one thing that they became blind to everything and every one around them. Now take that and apply it to focusing on the sadness or hurt. It's hard to see the loving promise waiting for you when what you want is instant relief and too stop reliving that moment or emotion over and over.
God works to heal us but we have to take an active part to. It's just harder for some people to reach that point or surrender. They are not "ridiculous" or need to just "move on". They have to work through their emotions to deal with the problem at hand. Some even have to question how they structure their life. That questioning is a part of that healing process for them. There are many ways to go about healing your spirit, and I thank God he has promised he will always be there for us.
It is a fool who doesn't question what he believes and follows blindly. But the bigger fool is the one who advises other fools on matters he doesn’t understand himself.
I agree with anonymous. You really haven't experienced that complete and total tear down have you? When everything you know about yourself, your faith, and the world around you completely crashes any sane person would ask the one person who might know the answer as to why. The pain that you go through, it isn’t something that you can slap a band-aid on and call it good. This pain affects everything you are. It is such a soul wrenching pain that at times you feel as if you can never feel whole again. It is that point where there is honestly nothing else you can do other than walk away from God to a quick fix heal, or trust in him completely to fix everything. Nothing about it is easy. Even with God it is nothing close to easy.
It is human nature to question what we don't understand. God created us this way and it is a vital part of our relationship with him. If one has a faith that they don't try to understand and question, do they really believe or are they just blindly following what the man at the altar is telling them? So much of our faith is that personal interaction between us and God. Asking questions isn't bad. All of the great prophets in the bible asked "Why God?" David asked it in almost every Psalm he wrote. Moses asked it when his life had been stripped bare and he was forced to go back to that old life. Joseph asked it when he was trapped in Egypt. Abraham asked it when he was forced to move from the only life he had ever known. Matthew, Paul, John, Thomas, Luke, Peter; all of them asked why. They were all great men of faith that had a relationship with God that we all strive for. But there comes a time in every believer’s life where they live out the phrase, “Gold refined by fire”. In doing this God completely strips us down from who we were and mold us into completely new believers for him. The process is painful and seems at time like God has left us for good. Unfortunately some believer’s faith in God will not survive the test and they will never know their true potential. Others, after finding their way through the pain, become truly magnificent beacons of faith.
So a person who talks about being unsure about their faith is just trying figure it all out and for your to tear that down and talk about it the way you did probably will do more damage than help.
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