“Oh how I wish my life was problem free.” I’ve said these words haven’t you? Problems! We all know them well. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some are easy to solve and others are so complicated they border on the impossible.
If you are alive, you have problems. Somehow we have the idea that as followers of Christ we should get to free-ride when it comes to problems. However, that’s just not reality. As Dr. Jerry Falwell said, “We are either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or about to go into a storm.” I don’t like that do you? However, that is life.
The truth about problems, in and of themselves, they are not bad. Problems are God’s way of providing us the means to move forward. Without problems there would be no growth. The truth is that “problem” you are dealing with right now has been orchestrated by God for your good. Don’t ask God why, but what? Problems confronted with truth take on a totally different perspective. A closing note: “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” Michael de Saint-Pierre
That last quote really hits home. I admit to being a pessimist in many ways. But I think some of it has to do with trying to guard my heart from future disappointment.