Sometimes in life things happen that make it very easy to be negative about your circumstances. Often times, it is much easier to focus on the problems of life than to find something good about life. Sometimes it can get so bad that we want to know why we were even born. It can be easier at times to see the bad because it is so big that it is eclipsing the good from view.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”– CS Lewis
There is a guy in the bible that had lots and lots of pain and lots of troubles. His name is Job. The bible describes him as perfect; upright and blameless. He was a very wealthy man. God had allowed satan to do everything he wanted to Job except kill him.
If anyone deserves blessings, Job does. Yet one day God puts him to the test. Job’s life falls to pieces; calamity of every kind descends upon him. Raiders sweep his fields; his livestock are captured or destroyed; his servants are put to the sword; a house collapses on his sons and daughters and kills them all. Disease strikes him, and he is covered with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. In all this, he submits patiently to God, only to be mocked by his wife, who tells him to “curse God and die!”(Job 2:9) Friends arrive, and still he is patient. For days they sit with him in silence, seeing how greatly he suffers.
“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? Job 3:11
Finally Job can contain himself no longer. In a torrent of grief and protest, he cries, wishing that he had never lived. He doesn’t curse God, but he curses the day he was born.
Growing up with a disability has not been easy at all. I go through things on a day to day basis that people couldn’t even begin to think of having to deal with. I’ve been in and out of the hospital having surgeries and such and it is so easy to be negative about all this “stuff” I have to deal with. I have done as Job did in chp.3 verse.11 plenty of times asking God why I was even born But if I get hung up on the why question for too long I would miss out on the reason God has given this to me. He gave this to me not to complain about it all the time but to be a witness to people and be a testimony to His greatness. If I was to complain to people all the time I would not be a good candidate for God to use because it would seem that I don’t embrace my disability and use it for His glory.
“His disciples asked Him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.’ John 9:2-3
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.
