My friend Kirby and his wife Kay were sitting with us at our Valentine dinner. We were all talking and having a good time. I think I said something about a hard life and Kirby said he had a friend who when he heard others complain and gripe about hard times in life would say, "Sounds like life to me." This struck me as so true.
Some people actually do have harder times than others. Some people are more blessed than others.
Some are rich and some are poor.
But it sounds like life to me.
I have always said Why not me? Others say why me? I figure its gotta be someone and I would rather it be me than a friend of mine or my kid, so why not me? I have no guarantees that life will be easy, and it hasn't been. Why should I get by scott free and no problems, and others have them?
I would not like to live free, easy and pain free if I had to watch all my friends going through life with all of life's cares.
God never promised a perfect life in him. He does promise to be there with us and to help us through it. I think life helps us to appreciate it when thing do actually turn out right or are good.
I think God wants us to depend on Him and ask for his help. Not that He makes us suffer so we will depend on Him, but that He lets us suffer so we turn to Him.
Yep, it sounds like life to me.
"All these things shall give thee experience and shall be for thy good."
ReplyDeleteAnd at the end of life, we will see that all things, both what we perceive as positive, and those we think were negative, will be blessings. Our Father in Heaven knows EXACTLY what we need.
When we accept that the Lord has everything under control...even our hardships. We will experience complete freedom!
ReplyDeleteHardships is a way of our faith being tested for His glory! What is He teaching us through it all?
Maria