Wednesday, January 13, 2010

rhetorical questions

It's so easy to think negatively. It's so easy to say life is terrible. And it's so easy to ask "why me?" I know I've asked that many times. But really, were we expecting life to be perfect? Were we expecting things to be easy?
Even Jesus suffered and He had a completely sinless life.

1 Peter verses 18-24 says
"Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when ou sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR YOU, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He commited no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he sufferend, he did not threaten but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed."


There is sin in the world and that makes life hard, but Jesus gave us so much to be happy about. There is no use being upset because life is hard. How will that make things better anyway?

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