On my deathbed I will be grateful to...........the one short love of my life, and two of my three children.
I will regret that I was not what my oldest child needed and could not figure out how to help him.
I have not knowingly been mean or cruel to anyone, stolen from anyone or harmed anyone.
I will never understand the lack of love in my life. I offered but didn’t receive.
I will never understand why I was taught that God was good, but allowed so much suffering.
Empathy and understanding to you. I hope you find meaning and purpose to it all before you pass. It’s the lot of us humans, isn’t it?
You are most fortunate and blessed to be able to say that.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (KJV)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God is good, suffering is life. I suffered plenty for years. I’m grateful as hell I didn’t suffer more. Many have.
I will never understand why I was taught that God was good, but allowed so much suffering.
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Some great thinkers believe it’s the price we pay for free will.
Please carefully read Matthew 8:23-27
So often we view suffering as some form of correction from God. Or that God is unhappy with us, or it is due to some fault or flaw in us. This is not so and it is also theologically unsound.
For those with a personal relationship with Jesus, He is with us always and He holds you in His hand. He can love you no more and He can love you no less because He loves you fully, flaws and all.
Suffering, though painful and unpleasant for sure, has use, it usually does one of two things. It either draws us to Him, or it causes us to push away from Him. Lean into Him.
Wow. Sad. You need Jesus.