Good Reminder

 

So this is me just babbling on for about three hundred words.  When I look at the stories and notes that we’ve read, I honestly feel like the first few weeks of the class readings and assignments were better than what we have read in the last week or so.  I think my favorite reading assignment was from Joel.  I am always a fan of digging deeper into God’s word. When I read it for the first time, there was one particular verse that caught my attention which was 2:25. In the new living translation it says “I will give you back what you lost.” I guess I’m one of, if not the only student in the class who actually enjoyed talking about suffering and darkness. Although sometimes I can get hostile when other people think they know what suffering and darkness is about but they really have no idea. This past week has been pretty challenging itself.  With schoolwork, relationships, and just stuff happening, life feels like its just beats us to the ground sometimes.  Sometimes it feels like the suffering never stops, or when it looks like things are coming together, sometimes fall through or falls apart again.  The problem with us is that we fail to see the big picture of the situation.  Every Friday in my life of Christ class, we have a Q&A class where we can ask Dr. Hackett whatever we pertaining to the bible, Christianity, God, ect.  One of the girls in the class asked, well, she really made a statement, that she did not understand why God had to allow suffering and people to die in order for us to grow and mature.  As we were talking about it in class I was reminded of something. God is always in control. No matter how chaotic things get, He always has it under control. A lot of the times we fail to realize what God could be saving us from because we’re so focused on the worst of the situation.