I was listening to an audiobook on my way back and forth to work. The author is discussing the life of Job. Most of his emphasis is on the fact Job didn't really do anything to bring on all his problems on himself, but that God let them happen. His "friends" kept making reasons for all the strangeness in his life (sound familiar?) and well....you know the story. Lots of the reasoning assumed by the friends-and nagging wife- tended to be centered around Job and what he'd done, or not done.
Why is it in life that we are always searching for a reason? Like everything that happens to us in life has a reason or problem that must be found out or solved. Or both. And if neither happens, the underlying reason lies within ourselves.
But what if it doesn't? How can we assume that EVERYTHING in life has to do with US? Life doesn't evolve around us...there's not but a minute amount of things we can do to actually affect life around us. But we can't do much to effect it's revolvation around....the sun. Not us. The sun. The friggin' earth doens't even spin around us. Nor can we change its path.
Yes, we bring things on ourselves. We CAN and DO have a vast and lasting effect on what's thrown in our way in life. And on the people in it. And when things happen, we think through it for many reasons- find out what caused it, learn from it what we can in order to avoid its reoccurrance, etc. Good reasons.
My question is...why must there always be an answer? Does there HAVE to be a reason? We search desperately for them...but what if there doesn't have to be one? And does it always do good to find it if there is one? You figure it out, then what? Like with Job, there was no reason. His faith was being tested. Why? Nobody really knows, besides the fact that Satan just felt like testing it. But what good would it have done for Job to have found that out? If I were him, I think to have found that all out after all that had happened to him, I would throw my head back and laugh. Cause Satan just couldn't believe that someone would love God or have that much faith in Him? Was he bored or something? Did he really not get the fact that God IS that good? and that He is worth it? Hadn't he also served in God's presence once?
Maybe there isn't always an answer, maybe you don't always need one. To find reasoning, and know how and where to look for it is a good habit by far. But worrying and dwelling on things might not get you to where you think you want to be in life. That's my rant for the day.
Question...
Is where you're going in life really where you want to end up??
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Ultimately, yea. I'm going to heaven, which is where I want to go. But if I don't take quite such a long view of things....I don't know. I've got some plans (ha!) and a general direction I'm headed (hopefully back to TW soon) but it's hard to say if that's what you want before you get there. And even once you're there it's hard to say.
ReplyDeleteSo basically, I don't know. But good post, none the less!
Job~ At first glance, I thought you were going talk more about your amazingly cool, fun dream job(s).
ReplyDeleteBut yes, good thoughts. Funny, b/c the other day I read about that one blind man Jesus healed on the Sabbath and it got the church leaders' undies in a wad. Everyone was asking, "who sinned? This man or his folks?" No one. The sickness was allowed so that God could be glorified in due time. Which raises a whole new set of questions. But yeah, life is life. People get sick, people die. Good happens. Bad happens. War happens. Is it right? No, but it happens. We can talk about how awful it is, but nothing is new. There has always been war, sickness, death, lonliness, joy, success, failure, etc. It's all part of life on the great big ball.