Dealing with Life's Deceptions

It's hard to accept that our biggest desires remain unfulfilled. When you really want something, you've rationalized its benefits, and you're excited for it to occur, and then God decides to take it away.

We fall to our knees and ask, "Why, God, why?!?!"

How do we deal with that? How do we deal with the disillusion from what we perceive to be an injustice? How long do we wait for Him to let us have this one thing we really desire?

We fill ourselves with anger and resentment with The One with our best interest at heart.

In my mom's reflection on her YouTube Channel a couple of weeks ago, she addressed this topic.

She shared how we struggle to understand why God allows us to go through painful situations. If He loves us so much, why does he place these obstacles to our happiness?

We often use the term heartbreak to describe the pain that deceptions bring into our lives. As we're going through it, even heartbreak doesn't truly describe the anguish and loss of hope that occurs.

We let ourselves be filled with that pain. We allow it to consume us. And then, in a rare moment of clarity where we remember God is with us, we lash out against Him, instead of asking for His mercy.

It's so much easier to hide away from the reality that we don't know what's best, and that we must allow God to lead us down the right path.

At the moment, we think we're doing the brave thing by defying Him, but we are actually cowering in fear for all the wrong reasons.

There's never been a storm or hardship, He hasn't saved us from. There is always a reason for why things occur. Time always tells. As painful as it might be, we don't have the length of vision that God sees for our lives: Our purpose.

We only see the piece of our life that is ahead of us. We can't even recall the past without an emotional bias for what occurred.

We place our faith in our coworker's or our friend's "good intentions" but don't give the same benefits to Him of knowing what's best for us.

God is the only one that has our best interest at heart. He loves us with our flaws and strengths, never asking more than for us to seek His grace. 

When we face hardships, as my mom best put it, we need to think:

"My strength ends here, but I leave everything in your hands God, because I know you are good. You will be there next to me and will lead me to something better. It might not be what I want, but for something better that you know I need."