Your life.

Your life. It is filled with joys. It is filled also with sorrows. Sickness, pain, death, hatred, divisions...

Life would seem a senseless roller coaster of emotions. Why have pain? Why have sorrow? There would be no purpose in it...if there wasn't a Divine Orchestrator.

God chooses you when "bad" things happen. He knows you can handle it, and He wants you, with that ability to handle it, to be a beacon for Him.

No, I don't think the idea would be to stand on a pedestal when you experience hardships and proclaim the love of God. Not everyone will listen to that. What they listen to is someone who is going through similar things, who live through it with God's light showing through.

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. " -Matt 5:6


Don't look at your problems(be the genuine, or petty) and then blow up in God's face about the lack of fairness. This problem you have both molds you, and gives you an opportunity for God to mold others.

Life is a tapestry. Your discolored life of a thread weaves perfectly into the tapestry as a whole. It may be stained with the cold colors of sorrow, but placed into God's hands it shows beauty. "Beauty? My son/father/mother/sibling dying is beauty?!"

The showing of beauty is the beauty of God's hope. There is hope in every trouble in life. That hope can be ignored, or it can be harnessed, and the light of God's love revealed.


Don't dwell on the dreariness of your life. It may truly be hard and dreary. I won't minimize that possibility. But you can handle it. You can grab hold of God's hope for yourself, and then shine forth the light of God in so doing. So, please, see this problem you are facing as God telling you that he trusts you enough to choose you to shine his light to the world.