Why Life Has Its Hardships and Sufferings

One of the most difficult conversations is when God and His words of truth become the issue. What I have learned because God is my only primary teacher that helps me to gather here a little and there a little is that more can be gained with words of His truth when the conversation is with a non church going person because their slates are cleaner and less stuffed with false teachings of man within the Laodicean churches of today. One as myself can just say so much that sounds smooth; because when I get into anything that the majority of religious people consider right or okay such as man’s holidays for just one example, and am against what they do believe or associate themselves with in any way because it is not written; I then become an outcast, not liked, not believed, judged and just wherever many false thoughts may lead. I am not out to change anyone as only God can do that. I just state truth as it is written while letting scripture interpret scripture.

We all live within a world of suffering, hardships and heartaches having to do with friends, family and all matters of life from a to z. Therefore life is more of a struggle in many ways for most than it is a joy. But why? Because Satan is the god of this world. 2 Corinthians 4:4

I am sorry for the struggles with all people, and in truth since the beginning that is just the way life has been; but not nearly as hard and bad as things are in these end times which are going to get much worse that few have a good understanding of from both sides; both sides meaning God and man.
Many can care about people such as friends who are in jail, friends and relatives with medical problems, illness and cancer, family matters and just everything in life that tries to drag you down, and if you just let it, it will. I could write a whole book about hardships with a half century of experiences that I would never want a repeat of; therefore I just chalk all up as education on what life can be without God. But; even with God is not easy, yet can be very secure, and that’s all that’s really important. Can be if we work for it or be not like a sluggard. Proverbs 6:6

Think about Job. He was a righteous man of God that with no warning lost his seven sons and three daughters, then all his servants, possessions and wealth. Some time past and he was then covered from head to toe with very painful boils and his own wife said to him, curse God and die. Next three friends that came to comfort him all turned against him making false accusations against him for why all this suffering had come upon him. And with all of this that happened to Job, he never charged God foolishly.

Think about Paul as a great man of God and his words of what life has been like when he says;

“I am talking like a madman with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And apart from these things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all churches. 2 Corinthians 11:23-28

Now think about your own self, your own relationship with God, and your own hardships and your own life in comparison with these but two men of God out of uncountable that have suffered, been tortured and died some gruesome deaths while only asking God to give you the needed inner peace to deal with all things within your life.

(Yet all church people put themselves far above every man of God since the beginning in that they are saved and will get rapture with no suffering and many other man fed beliefs that make them very superior, and they are superior when it comes to blindness because God’s own truths about them is all through scripture they choose to ignore or change into not meaning them; when what’s written means exactly them all.)

We live within a world of sin filled with darkness and our own destruction with deaths, waste and far more horrors that the human minds want to hear, believe or accept. So what is the solution?

Colossians 3:2 is the first step. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Because when you do that you’re looking to God. What is in our lives can’t be changed, but when we do as God says to do such as “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 While being fully aware that He knows our every thought, need, action and hearts intent. Matthew 6:8, 1 Samuel 2:3, Hebrews 4:12 Therefore if you have genuine faith He is pleased with you and even more pleased when you diligently seek him as silver and hid treasure. And you will be rewarded in God’s own time. Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 2:4 1 Samuel 2:8

The more that you sacrifice yourself for your Father in the heavens that has always been, the more that He will do for you. And not in ways that you necessarily can see, feel and understand because of His words in Isaiah 55:8-9 And to sacrifice genuinely means to go a step further than most all. Think about a 24 hour fast with no food or water as a very private matter that only God knows, and expect nothing; yet know you have pleased Him.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord. For the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Actually understanding God, accepting your own life as it is no matter how the cards may be dealt while always only pushing forward as running the race that requires the mind of Christ and His own words in John 8:28-29

“. . . I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things; for I do always those things that please Him.
What Job went through, what Paul went through, and what Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego went through by being put into a fiery furnace seven times hotter than ever before is what’s going to happen to you. Yet they all survived because of their faith in God.

About Elijah’s faith in 1 Kings 17:8-16 is also a lesson you must learn; and when you read these words below you will understand what faith does to please God and win His favour.

“Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in His mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalms 33:18-19

Or just remain with the blind being led by the blind while ignoring God’s words directly to you;

“Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight; . . . for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up in dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy one of Israel.”