Life isn't easy! Never has been. Never will be. Sometimes I'm guilty of trying to rush through the uneasy or the difficulties of life so I can get to the good life. And then I am disappointed to find out that life still isn't easy. Suffering really stinks. Pain is unpleasant at best. Darkness is overwhelming at times. It is absolutely no fun at all to go through the valley of the shadow of death. And yet we find ourselves there more than we want. I wish we could lasso the good and capture it for all times. But the world doesn't work like that. Jesus promised hardship, Paul boasts about suffering. And believers cannot escape it.
Bruggeman talks of the Psalms and considers the idea that there are Orientation Psalms, Disorientation Psalms, and Reorientation Psalms. I think life is much like that. We are oriented to a certain way of life, disoriented by pain and suffering, and then reoriented when we find reprieve or deliverance.
My hope for my own life is that when I find myself in a time of disorientation, when life isn't easy I will slow down time and call upon God. I will read his Word more deeply. My prayers will have greater focus. My hope is that my pain will not be wasted. And that my future gain will be a well of worship to the one who carries us through all of life.
My God is great!
Bruggeman talks of the Psalms and considers the idea that there are Orientation Psalms, Disorientation Psalms, and Reorientation Psalms. I think life is much like that. We are oriented to a certain way of life, disoriented by pain and suffering, and then reoriented when we find reprieve or deliverance.
My hope for my own life is that when I find myself in a time of disorientation, when life isn't easy I will slow down time and call upon God. I will read his Word more deeply. My prayers will have greater focus. My hope is that my pain will not be wasted. And that my future gain will be a well of worship to the one who carries us through all of life.
My God is great!
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