Is suffering necessary?
Is pain all bad?
Is trouble a problem?
Should we ask these questions?
Are there answers?
Why doesn’t God fix this?
Can God fix this?
If I was God, could I?
Is that a silly question?
Is God running everything?
If I don’t like it (how He’s running things), can I discard God?
Can I invent god to suit me?
Can I invent answers, and change anything, really?
Can I figure it all out?
Can eight billion people figure it out eight billion different ways, and everyone be right?
Or just you?
Or just me?
OR:
Can there be answers from outside of us?
Can we know these answers?
Is there really a God?
Is there one God?
Does God have answers?
Does God tell us any answers?
How does God tell us?
What do we really need to know?
As human beings, we basically want life to be easy.
We complain if it’s not.
We sacrifice in unbelievable measure to make life easier, later.
We often endure hardship, for that goal.
We actually practice “NO PAIN—NO GAIN.’
Some focus on ‘life is no fair,’ and demand that others owe them an easier life.
I realized recently that ninety percent of my own prayers are asking God to make my life easier.
God can do that, and often God does.
Then other times God doesn’t, and I suffer—pain, anguish, brokenness, loss, heartbreak, weakness, fear, devastation, desperation—many things that others suffer.
I believe in God.
I trust in God.
I believe God wrote down what we need to know.
God wrote down all the answers we need for this life.
And God answered questions that no human can answer.
God told us exactly what we need to know, and do, about life after this life.
There is no other source for certainty about life after death.
We do not suffer from lack of answers—we suffer from lack of READING and BELIEVING the answers God has written down for us.
“God loved everyone in the world so much, that He gave His only Son to die and pay for our sins, so that whoever believes in Him does not have to perish in hell, but have eternal life in heaven.”
So, what about all those unanswered questions and dilemmas partially listed above?
Some have answers, some don’t.
Since I am not smart enough to satisfy everyone’s grievances, or even my own grievances, I will offer three principles here:
“The sufferings of this present life are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us [in the life to come].”
“If we have hope for this life only, we are of all people most miserable.”
“God comforts us in all our trouble, so that we can comfort others in any trouble with the same comfort.”
Philosophical facts, universally validated:
+People who are searching for an easy life are not the happiest.
+People who are struggling often testify to finding greater meaning in life.
+Christians who are persecuted say they found a deeper, sweeter relationship with Jesus than without the suffering.
+People who are suffering become stronger.
Bottom line:
JESUS
“I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life—no one comes to God the Father except through Me.”
Come to Jesus, and your most important question is answered.
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