God never says oops, my bad I didn't mean for you to go through that I meant for so in so to.
I heard this on the radio this morning on our way home from therapy. It makes so much sense. It means God knows what is going to happen to you before you are born. He knows every hardship and success you will have in your life and He has a reason for each. Sometimes it is hard to see the positive in hardships but it is so easy to be thankful for the successes.
In our study this Sunday we were studying the book of Jeremiah chapters 25- 27. We were faced with a God we were not comfortable with. A God that put His own people in captivity for 70 years. His own people! I think as Christians we see a God that is loving and performs miracles, and is kind of like a soft teddy bear, He makes us feel good inside. The thing is he will only take so much before He gives us what we deserve. Meaning we can only keep sinning so many times before BAM He gives us what we should have gotten all along. Personally for me if a dog bit me once I would be done but God allows the dog to bite so many times before he finally has enough.
I think that when we face hardships it is so easy to be uncomfortable with God but really if we only open our eyes and hearts we will see that He has so many great things in store for us.
Our paths are paved before we are born. All we have to do is follow His path for us. This does not mean that we can be on cruise control our whole lives and have no bumps in the path. For one, how boring would that be? 2, we would learn nothing.
If anyone could say, "dang, we've been dealt a hard hand" I think we could. We certainly do not have it harder than everyone since there is always someone with a bigger struggle than you but we by no means have had it easy. BUT, the BEAUTY is God didn't say "My bad, Oops!" He is in control and knows every single thing He is doing and it is for a reason. That my friends is AWESOME!
Don't get me wrong I've been mad. There have been times more than once when I wanted to know why me, us, my kids but thankfully I've quickly always have seen the miracle and the beauty of just how AMAZING He is! And I hope that I will always be able to see the good in our trials.
Krista
