whyGOD

Why God?

The question that ponders you and me. Sometimes I ask this, and I have now learned to accept what the dear Lord has given me.
Today I sat in the dentist chair, as excruciating pain cut into my gumline, I had to numb myself and focus on other beautiful thoughts. But the question I ask is why God allows us to go through so much pain in this life.

I suppose pain is unavoidable. It is the reality that we all must face as we face life's hard lessons. The thing I am learning is to find true joy. Joy that lasts. Life to the full. Peace everlasting. I have learned to love, and I want to hold on to love as long as I can for all eternity. I have learned to love life. I have learned to love my wife... to love my new son...my family...my friends...and even those of you who I don't even know. Why? Because of God.

So why God? I know there are many who don't believe in God, and others who truly hate God, and others who believe that God doesn't care. I was like that at one time also. The Bible even says in Romans 1:19-20 that all people know of God, and this was a truth I could no longer reject. Even more so, I found myself passively seeking God out. I found through my life circumstances, that I needed God and without him I had no recourse for salvation on earth...that I had no where to go when I faced my own demons.

I now know that God is the only way. John 14:6 tells us that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light, that there is no other way to our heavenly Father except through Jesus. God is truly the one that never changes, the one who I must ultimately trust, and the one who is about everything I needed for my soul and my spirit. So I could know of Peace, Love, Joy, happiness, Hope and Faith. God is the answer.

So there it is. Why God? Because the World was killing me. Me as a self-proclaimed god, had failed myself. The drugs, the sex, the lying, the facade, the loneliness was leading me further into the darkness of my own soul with no light to save me. In fact, I faced death and the desire to terminate my own existence because of my own failures in life. People as I knew during these trying times gave me some hope and some love, but it was to far in between to sustain the spirit to live I needed. The water of life I needed, could only come from Jesus. Jesus says "It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life." John 4:13 from the New Living Translation of the Bible.

Now as I face life and its many challenges, I truly know that the world will always have its challenges. But for me, I have God, and with God I can trust that We can overcome the challenges, because as I trust in God and stay with him, even death cannot take the joy and the love I will always have. The pain of losing a loved one, is truly the gravest challenge anyone who has loved will ever face. Why God? oh why must we suffer? I think Philippians Chapter 3 explains it very well. The pain and suffering we bear is to draw us ever closer to our God.

Our Lord Jesus experienced the same pain we face and knows every struggle we have. The feelings of hate, bitterness, lostness, emptiness that can come with pain we suffer leads only to death. Instead as we face these pains, and suffer through the challenges life gives us we can decide to turn to God for hope. Turn to God for direction, turn to God for salvation. In the pain we go through I have learned that I can not overcome the struggles of this world on my own. Only through Jesus. Revelation 7:17 teaches me this truth. Only through Jesus can anyone hope to overcome death. My hope and prayer is that you find the answer in time and in this life.
" And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we are in God because we are in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God and he is eternal life."
1 John 5:20