Life is short and many times it is full of ups and downs. Can anyone actually live a perfect and wonderful life without any challenges and down time? I doubt so. Everyone either is experiencing down time or is going to experience down time. It is not because I am a pessimistic people, but because it is the reality. It is because of human being's sin which cause ourselves to be painful and be separated from God's joy.
Since it is reality for almost everyone, what can people actually do when they have down time? Some positive people may ignore such thing or forget the bad things happened before. Are they truly be positive and have not got upset ever? I don't think so. People will have time feel lonely and sad, it is human nature. Even though we can have fun with friends and with family members, this cannot eliminate the fact of sadness we encounter everyday. How about pessimistic people? They will feel so bad when something bad happened to them. They will remember all bad things that happened to them before. No man is free from pain and suffering.
We cannot change the world around us. We cannot change the reality. However, God provide us a way out, that is, to look upon Him and everything will be calmed down. In the down time or sadness, we will certainly be sad and not satisfied. However, if we can truly look upon God, we shall not focus on what happens around us. When we look upon God, we will remember the wonderful works God has done to us and full of thankfulness. Although things around us change dramatically everyday, our God is always our refuge and be our comforter.
However, is God what people invent to make them feel better when bad things happen? I used to think that God is invented by human being. However, if God does not exist and is only our imagination, how can it hold people for so long time, and not only for one people, but for millions and billions. There must be something that is true behind the scene although we cannot directly see it. No lie can keep people believe. However, there are many other religion who firmly believe there is God and their God is different from mine, are they in a lie? If so, why does the lie can keep them believe? There are some possible explanations to this. First, maybe such religion raises up people's selfish desires to pursue their own good, either power or fame. There maybe other reason that if we believe in God, there should also have evil, evil will let people get away from the true God. Evil spirit can also have supernatural power to dilute people to believe in false God. How tragedy it is!
There is much to say about why people feel sad and suffering, especially during the time that we cannot see the future and waiting for something. It requires for patience to wait for the Lord's promise, but the process is sometimes painful and not good. However, if we believe in God, no matter what He does to us, we will have no doubt because He controls the future, He has the global optimization for everyone of us. I have peace in Him. Thank you LORD!
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