This Miserable Life

"Miserable Thou Art, wheresoever thou be, or wherever thou turnest, 

unless thou turn thyself unto God." --Thomas Kempis

     Everyone goes through hard times in this life, for "[Every] Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble."(Job 14:1) I have had hard and difficult things happen to me in this life, and I am sure you have had your fair share as well. Things that have threatened to shake my foundation and make me turn from God. I see it much too often, someone going through a hard time, giving up on God, and ultimately denying his existence. Because they did not turn to God, they turned their attention to their situation. They saw the stormy waters, were afraid, and let themselves sink.

"But woe to them that know not their own misery; and a greater woe

to them that love this miserable and corruptible life!"

      Hard times, afflictions, were not intended to bring us down. They are meant to encourage and strengthen us. 

      People look at me and say, how can you believe in a God that would let these things happen to you, that would let these things happen to your family? But I say trials only make me love and worship God even more. Every man goes through the fire, whether he wants to or not. 

     This life is miserable. And he that does not see that is in a very bad place. But we are not meant to let that misery be our focus, instead we are to long even more for the Glory of a perfect Heaven and its beauty. 

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us...... For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."(Romans 8:18;38,39)