Life sucks and then you die . . .

What an encouraging phrase: "Life sucks and then you die."  Do you believe this?  No, of course not - it's so negative, right?  Well I have to be honest with you.  Sometimes I have to fight against believing this. Life does sometimes feel quite "sucky."  Sometimes it feels like one hard issue after another that we are dealing with or maybe it's one ongoing life-long struggle.  It's hard.  It's not fun.  Life is certainly not a bowl of cherries.  We seem to catch a break one day and then the next - wam! - we're blindsided by an unexpected problem.  So how do we not believe that life sucks and then you die on those depressing days when it feels so true?  Well how do you fight against any lie? - with the truth.  The only truth that I know I've found in the pages of my Bible.  So I flip through it pages that have been stored in my mind over my lifetime and I repeat the truths to myself.  "I have come to give you life and life abundant" Jesus said.  "I know the plans I have for you - plans to prosper and not to harm you" the Lord declares.  "In this world you will have trouble, but don't be afraid because I have overcome the world." Jesus tells us.  Paul tells us that "All things work out for our good if we love the Lord."  I hang on to those truths like a cat hanging onto a log as it is getting washed down stream.  I am not letting go - no matter what!

Life is hard - yes that's true, but it does not suck!  Your physical body will die - that is also true, but we have eternal Life if we know the Lord!  Today I am struggling with something pretty tough for me and my temptation is to believe the lie, but I refuse because it's simply not true.

So my simple thought for the day is this.  No matter how bad life looks through our eyes today - God has a plan & a purpose for our Good in all of it.  We just need to rest in that truth, regardless of how it feels. 

Hanging on to my log with all claws dug in . . . hopefully the "ride" is over soon.

"Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. "

Romans 8:28 (The Message) ^26-28