I have two Dwarf Goats named BillyMoo and MollyMoo. We had MollyMoo about a week before we adopted Billy. Billy and Molly are about a month apart in age and are now inseparable. Where ever Molly goes Billy goes, if Billy starts running and dancing Molly will too. Their relationship is so cute to see but it wasn’t always this way. When we introduced the two of them Molly hated Billy. We had to keep them separated at night for a few days because Molly would slam him into the walls of their cage and try to fight with him. After this period of fighting ended they began to love each other. Now their bond to each other couldn’t be stronger.
It was all a process with the two of them, they needed to go through the hard stuff so that they could move on with the good. In a way, a relationship with Jesus is kind of the same. Bad things happen in our life and when they do we look for someone to comfort us and we ask the famous question, “why?” This famous question is normally directed to the most famous being, God. God is in control of everything. Sometimes this knowledge brings us comfort but when times are hard this question seems to bring more resentment than anything else.
When asked the question, “When do you communicate with God most?” Most people, if honest, respond by saying that they talk with God the more when hard times come around. I know some people that never pray unless there is a crisis in their life. Maybe thats why God allows hard times to hit. If there was no death, sadness, poverty, hunger, sickness, war or hatred then life would be perfect. If the world was this way then that would mean there was no sin in the world. None of the things above even existed until Adam and Eve sinned and hid from God back in the Garden of Eden. Once sin occurred the world as Adam and Eve knew it changed. Sin is the cause of all this turmoil in the world. If there was no sin then we wouldn’t need Jesus to pay the price for our screw ups. If there was no sin, life would be perfect. But sin is here.
Maybe God allows us to go through hard times to bring us closer to Him. Lets face it, on our own, in a perfect universe, we don’t go to God. Our prayer life becomes sloppy, reading God’s word becomes less of a priority and our relationship with God starts to struggle. If we don’t go through the hardships of life then we won’t grow with God. I think God allows hard times so that we have an opportunity to cling to Him. Jesus knows that on our own we won’t cling to Him. Jesus knows that we are stubborn and all around stupid. We need Jesus because the world around us is filled with heartache and troubles. We need heartache to point us back to the One who will help us pick up the broken pieces.
Just like Billy and Molly needed that hard time to have the sweetest little friendship, we need the hard times to build our relationship with God. Its at these moments we have the opportunity to grow with God instead of apart from God. When the rest of the world around us has crumbled we have the opportunity to turn to Jesus. Hard times are really just an invitation to grow with God.
Alyssa MunsieDeuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, and His everlasting arms are under you…
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