You look at your life and think “it’s not supposed to be this way”. Maybe something you didn’t want came into your life and messed it all up…a bad report card, accused of something you didn’t do, punished a little more harshly than you think you should be.
Well you are certainly not the only one that feels that way. We all feel that way sometimes. It happens a lot actually.
You’ve heard the old saying “Life’s not fair!”
Well there is a lot of stuff in life that seems “unfair”. Like when you need a friend more than anything in the world and they just aren’t there for you when you need them, when that person you thought you knew inside and out turns out not to be who you thought they were or when your girlfriend/boyfriend breaks up with you.
We put expectations on other people and find ourselves disappointed. When life throws us these curve balls we can’t seem to find the logic in it all. Life and love collide and we rack our brains to figure out reasons for what has happened or why people have done what they have done but we end up even more confused.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 tells us that God is the comforter of us all.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.”
So do you think life was fair to Jesus?
Do you think he was ever disappointed in the people he put expectations on?
Jesus faced these same trials and was disappointed by people too. Human life was not fair to him either and stuff didn’t always make sense to him either. But Jesus, being the great comforter he was, always had a passion for comforting people even during unmet expectations, when things didn’t make sense, and when people were disappointing…evenup until his death.
Although Jesus does not promise that things will be perfect, he does tell us over and over again in the bible to lay our burdens down on him.
In Matthew 11:25 Jesus tells us “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give yourest.”
He doesn’t sayothers will always live up to our expectations…
He never promises it will all make sense…he just asks that you leave it all to him.
For it is in these moments…in these disappointments, these times of confusion that we find him. It is in these moments that we connect and find comfort.
These are the times that he uses for us to come to our knees and look up to him.
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain you” – Psalms 55:22
On our own, we will spend hours dissecting thesituation, trying to figure out everything. We wait until everything is perfect and it all makes sense, not realizing that we have missed out on it all together. If we wait till Love is perfect, Life is perfect, everything is perfect we never find what we are looking for and we miss out on the true meaning of why Jesus went to that cross for us in the first place.
According to Romans 8:28, Jesus wants us to love Life, others and him “And we know that all things work together for good to them that loves God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”
Love Life
Love OthersLove Him
That is the True Meaning of Life.
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