One of the things that I continue to learn is that at points, life can be seemingly unpredictable. That sometimes things happen to derail your current direction and leave you wondering what happened. I am going through one of those times right now, and it has caused me to being much more introverted and quiet and introspective than is usual for me. I don’t know that this is a bad thing, but more just something that happens.
I recently was sitting with a group of friends, talking about life and where we are at and wondering about what a spiritual community that builds us up might look like. One of these friends said something that really hit me, and that has been applicable lately because it speaks directly to my standard mode of operation. This friend said that it’s easy for some of us to operate with this assumption that God only wants to force us to do things we don’t like. He said that he’s been finding that while this is sometimes true, that God also wants to do things that are good for us.
This has been good for me to hear, because the past few years of my life, it has seemed as if the only lesson I’ve really gotten to learn is that I’m not nearly as good of a leader as I thought I was. That I’m not as cool of a person as I thought I was. And that not everything I do automatically succeeds. I know that I am learning something about God’s plan for me and that it operates outside of my standard means. But lately it has been good- good to be reminded that God wants to do good things for me. While I know I believe this if you were to quiz me on my theology, I also know that existentially I would say that it feels like God is cruel because he keeps messing my stuff up.
I am going to be spending some time dwelling on God wanting what is good for me and being reminded that God is truly good.
Here’s my question for you: is this something that you struggle with, or have struggled with? How have you addressed this in your life when it has come up?
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