???What gives?

[thenewageriseth]

As I sit and read these problems that others have and the observe those who seem to have it better:
better friends, better income, better bling-bling, better stuff, etc.

And I wonder...Where is the equality?

Why are there those who suffer? And those who have it made?

What about people like the rich? How come the most rich kids have problems like normal kids?

What about the mentally challenged and physically challenged?

Where was God when all this stuff happened?

It makes me question anything I read in the Bible. Most things, rather.
???

 

[PorcelainHeart]

Same here, it seems so many people are suffering. I don't know if you can call me mentally challege but I do have manic depression and sometimes I wonder why GOD gaved me this burden. I can't even control my emotions and I get very unbalace easy.


on the rich people, everyone has problems, sometimes rich people have more problems because they are rich.

 

[Achichem]

And I wonder...Where is the equality?

in our hearts, in our spirits, in our choices

Why are there those who suffer? And those who have it made?

In Life there is suffering, yet it give birth to compassion, compassion out of love, and joy out of triumph of all that is good

What about people like the rich? How come the most rich kids have problems like normal kids?

because money is not G-d

What about the mentally challenged

G-ds gifts and miracles, great people to be around, always ready to help you smile, most offering more than much of what we aspire to

and physically challenged?

I am not a body, I have a body

Where was God when all this stuff happened?

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Right there, ready

It makes me question anything I read in the Bible. Most things, rather.

Without questions there can not be answers

 

[PorcelainHeart]

in our hearts, in our spirits, in our choices

In Life there is suffering, yet it give birth to compassion, compassion out of love, and joy out of triumph of all that is good


because money is not G-d

G-ds gifts and miracles, great people to be around, always ready to help you smile, most offering more than much of what we aspire to

I am not a body, I have a body

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Right there, ready

Without questions there can not be answers

I guess you're right. Never thought of it like that.

 

[UnitynLove]

We are often wondering why we have these burdens in life. God has equipped with these the strength to overcome these stuggles, thus supplying help for those going through the same situation. You show who God really is by helping those who are going through something, especially something that you are familiar with. Let his Glory be Shown.

 

[PorcelainHeart]

I don't think I can overcome my struggles sometimes. So many of them.

 

[Achichem]

Often when there appears to be “too many struggles” it can be that we desire something so much, that our pursuit of it is unable to come about, and so we become frustrated and thus lose our sense of hope. Yet this is only there to challenge us to proactively begin the process of asking the right questions , such as what our personal standards are, what we can do to start it moving, who we can forgive and assist to build a pattern of our success, who we can surround ourselves by to make it happen, who we can trust with helping motivate us....and so on and so forth.

all around

 

[mythrainbow]

Well said dudes! I agree.

Just a few things I'd like to add (although it never ends up to be just a few).
I understand the questioning here. I have been there before, all these things has us sometimes wondering why, since were told He is there, that God what stand back and not interfere.

Well two things I've learned. One, God is there, and He is actively protecting us from what we really need protection from.
Think of it like this. If a parent has a child which is deathly alergic to bees, would the parent not do everything in his/her power to keep bees away from the child? So the child may not ever see bees anywhere, but that is because the parent is protecting the child in ways that can't be seen. This protecting may cause other pains, like feeling left out of activities other children can do, feeling different or alienated, I mean you've gotta keep those blasted epi-pens with you always. Ok anyway....

See the similarity, God is protecting us in ways we can't even comprehend let alone understand.
Isaiah 55:9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Second thing, is that despite all this the enemy is also working. He is trying to skew our view of how we see God.

Like our friends, as kids, I'm sure everyone remembers this, sitting around talking about how our parents did this or that and it's just such a drag that they all conspire against us to destroy happiness in kids, or just simply do not understand.

Well the enemy tries to use our small view of life to convince us to go against God in some way.

Believe me these weren't things I learned easily, but at some point you just have to exercise faith, even when nothing make since and your head is screaming "this wrong, all this stuff shouldn't be happening" you need to make a choice to believe that God is there for you and will make it better.

Hosea 6:1 "Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth."

And yes sometimes everything that happens to us seems to much for us, but that's because it is. God doesn't expect us to handle these things by ouselves, were are to rely on Him foremost but also on other members of the Body of Christ. Could a hand do anything without the wrist? If your wrist is broken, isn't your hand in a cast as well?

1Corinthians 12:26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Ok enough preaching out of me

 

[Mrs. Luther073082]

Every struggle I've gone through has made me stronger, taught me a lot, and brought me closer to the Lord. I don't like to suffer, but I'm starting to see that everything that has happened to me really did happen for a reason.