You are God

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

Sometimes life sucks!

- When a man dies from cancer after the saints have cried out again and again,

- When marriages break down,

- When I spend the day ill in bed,

We've been looking at a different part of the sermon on the mount each day in our morning devotional time with the team here.

When it was my turn we looked at the wide and narrow gates, how the narrow path is better. someone shared out of an experience of a narrow mountain path the day before in Bajram Curri and how it's hard, how you have to watch your feet and keep focused on the goal.

Yes life sucks. the easy path leads to destruction, because it requires no focus and discipline, the hard path brings life; life that is hard, life that requires perseverance, life that needs focus and life that is full.

God doesn't make life easy, God doesn't take us out of the valley, God doesn't tell us every step.

God sits with us through the hard times, God cries with us, God listens to us, God loves us.

Again I've re visited Pete Grieg's 'God on Mute' (it's so nice to read things written out of personal experience) we talks about life being tough and that the bible actually says to expect it to be tough. How is it that although we read these things talk about them and think we've understood, when something goes wrong we're back to square one wondering what God is playing at.

His ways are not our ways nor are his thoughts our thoughts, but his way is right and so I choose to follow although the road is hard, the falls are long and the whole experience is highly likely to be incredibly painful at times.

I read somewhere not long ago that risks should not be evaluated according to how dangerous they are but on how important the result is.