StraightAhead

I hear this a lot.  I also hear that all things work for good for those that love the lord.  I also hear that the prayers of a righteous man availeth much.  Or , We can’t see the big picture of what God has in mind for us because we are mere humans, but it will be good if we believe and have faith.  I think that if all of this, the suffering and death that we must go through, is because of the fall of Adam and Eve, then there are any number of ways that God, if he’s the man, could have remedied all of this very long ago.  He decided that man should suffer and that the devil should have power in this world throughout the ages.  The last thing I want to do is discount the death of his only Son, our hope of eternal life, and I know that as Christians we believe that is how he remedied the fall of man.  I know all this, yet in the middle of something so bad that is happening to somebody you love, it’s little consolation at times.  There had to be another way if God is in charge that we didn’t have to suffer in this life.  Write it off as a bad experiment or something and try something else that doesn’t entail mankind suffering until, through faith, we do the right thing while we are alive and believe something we can’t see or understand and achieve through grace, of course, eternal life where we sing and worship that God for all eternity.  I know, my faith is low this morning because my wife can’t move her left arm and the left side of her face is drooping despite all the doctors saying that this would not be happening because of where the tumor was and that it was sooooo easy to get to. 

     I really do appreciate all my friends and family thinking about us and praying for us.  It does lift my spirits.  It’s always good to have that support.  I love you all