Life

Have you ever noticed how life likes to throw you a curve ball right when you aren't expecting it, just because of everything else going on in your life? For instance, when you start dating this really great guy and he starts telling you he loves you just a couple weeks into your relationship. You don't see it coming. Or when your boyfriend breaks up with you over the internet while he's in town for no apparent reason. Or your dad can't make it to your important concert because your mom is depressed. Or your dad goes bankrupt and gets arrested for domestic assault--assaulting you.   These things happen. It's sad, but they happen. You wonder why. . . Why did my parents get divorced? Why did we have to move across the country? Why wouldn't any of my friends stand up for me? Why did my dad abuse me emotionally? Why didn't I know how to respond when she was attacking my faith? Why is the biggest question in my life right now. Now, those things I mentioned before? Those haven't happened to me necessarily, but to the people I care about. But even still, I see how they have affected their lives. These problems, I don't know how any of them feel up close and personal. But I know how they've hurt the ones I love.
I know a girl whose boyfriend told her he loved her two weeks into their relationship. She was shocked and didn't know how to respond. She didn't love him back, and told him so. But he didn't care. He kept telling her. They kept dating. But one day she realized that she didn't have romantic feelings for him at all. She didn't want to break up with him, but she knew she had to. She felt like she would be being a jerk if she did, but in the end she knew that was the right decision. But it was a curve ball that she didn't see coming. It changed a lot of things. And that's just one example.
Now I could tell you all about the other incidents I mentioned before, but that's a good place to stop for the point I want to get across. The point of this whole thing is that God is in control. I don't care if you don't believe in God or if believing in God has been your entire life. God is in control. And more than that, God sees the big picture. God knows that what he's given you to deal with is for good. After all, in Romans 8:28 it says, "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." (NASB) That means that no matter what difficulties we have, God knows that in the end, they will work for the good of us, the people working for His purpose. And that's a comforting thought, at least for me.