Tough Times

There are so many times when I feel like I am barely hanging on the rope of life. Things can get so unbelievably hard. When these hard times come, I can't help but think, why? Many of us feel this way quite often, but brush it off. I believe that it is important to look at the why, but more important than the why is the who. It is so easy to blame God for the bad things happening in our lives. Instead of blaming God we need to turn to God to find understanding and hope. God will always bring us through our trials with victory. Of course, as Christians we have the glorious truth that Christ has the ultimate victory! Everytime I stop to think on that truth my trials and hard times seem a lot less "big," if you know what I mean. It just puts things in perspective, that I serve a God who saves, not condemns. Jesus wants to rescue all of us from whatever we are going through. He is just waiting to. We just need to stop blaming Him and come to Him as a child who is looking for comfort in their parent's arms.
It is not promised that we will always be delivered here on earth from our trial, but it is promised that after this life we will be delivered from it all, and everything will finally be perfect.