"Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon."
I have decided more than once to be in love with God. And he has definitely "happened" upon me.
I have decided more than once to be in love with a man...and the only thing that happens is that I get left.
People say that things happen for a reason and that God has a plan. I agree to the first part, but I struggle with the second. It comes back to the ultimate question, Why does God let us suffer?
A good friend of mine once said..."What we dismiss, God cherishes. What we embrace, God tears ways. The very things we believe are not truth at all. What we perceive as spiritual has its roots in the earth, and the God that pursues us will forsake us at our most critical moment and let us crumble in despair and fall into darkness. It is there, where he hides. He is unseeable. He touches us with his wounds and embraces us in the darkness."
So to sum it up, we suffer because it brings us closer to God. Really? I don't know of any prophet who hasn't suffered. And I don't know any that God hasn't loved either. I know that God loves me and I know that I suffer, but are the two really connected?
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