Why are we thrown into things we don’t like?

I don’t know about you, but it seems like I am just getting comfortable with where I am and who I enjoy, and then comes separation. Maybe you are a freshmen starting all over again. Maybe you just moved to a new life, with no prospects. Maybe those near you moved. You fill in the blank. I can empathize. To leave the place of love and security into the unknown is brutal. Most don’t do it. I have left those I love now countless times. Worse, I left to go to a place where I knew no one. The mornings are filled with emptiness and your chest aches. The days seem to be one string of uncertainty after another. Where do I go now? Who will I run into? What am I going to do if I find something? The nights bring some relief as you talk on the phone, but you are soon haunted with the idea of the next morning.

So here you are…what are your options? Find the nearest party, get hammered. Hook up with the first semi-attractive person you meet and hope for the best. Maybe you could just recreate yourself and find a new and exciting group? I don’t have the answer, but I know what I did. Sounds, religious, unoriginal, or weird, but I worshipped.

That’s right. I called upon the one entity who not only created me and intimately knew my lonliness and pain, and I praised Him. You see, Jesus Christ, the one who came into the world as God-in-flesh, experienced bitter loneliness on a scale you and I could not fathom. Everyone he loved left him. Even more, God the Father, abandoned him for a time as he died upon a cross for the sins of those who abandoned him. I reflected upon this truth and worshipped. I thanked Him from my heart, and found the joy to love others who might be lonely and confused. Hey…I told them, the God who found me, also suffered worse than me. Even more incredible, he chose to suffer this way! He wasn’t thrown into anything. Why? To save me and comfort me.

Then I knew. Why are we thrown into things that cause us incredible pain? To worship the only God who entered this jacked up world to die for it, only to rise from the dead to re-create it by a new society who believe.