There's been a lot of conversation lately about how God works...we keep wondering "why?"
-Why doesn't God heal everybody?
-Why does God let bad/hurtful things happen to me?
-Why doesn't God answer my prayers?
The more we've talked, the more I've concluded, it's because we only see a piece of what's going on - we don't see the big picture. We can't wrap our pitiful human minds around God because He's looking at it all - all the infininate possibilities.
We also don't see life through God's eyes. We may still be sinners, but when God looks at us He also sees a saint, washed clean by His son's blood. Even while someone is still sick, or broken, or dying, God sees them as healed, whether He physically heals them at the time or not. We need to learn to look beyond the physical.
I've also learned, with God, it's all about timing. God's timing is perfect and God's timing isn't ours.
The truth is, pain is apart of our life. The enemy will attack and hurt us. But every time our hearts break, God's breaks right along with us. I'm learning trusting God is taking the hard situations and saying "For this I have Jesus."
I don't have the answers for all the "why's?". I will probably always struggle with them. But what I do know is God is a good God and He is soveriegn.
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Uncle Jim was in town this weekend. He wasn't my uncle before Friday, but he is now :) I think I will always cherish the memory of him taking me, Connor, and Mac to How To Train Your Dragon!
Yeah! I agree. We have a very narrow focus (with ourselves at the center of it most often!) and can't see God's big picture. God IS good! :)
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In church yesterday,during the thing they say before offering, the guy started talking about how we don't see the big picture...he gave this analogy about how if his kids were to want to run get a ball that rolled across the street that even though the ball is good, the parent would still stop the child from getting the ball because of all the cars in the way...I've heard it so many times, but it's always a good reminder of how even when things seem "good" there's usually more going on.
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