A Bread Crumb and Fish

I'm not very good with adversities.

at all.

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Amos 4: 6-11
I gave you empty stomachs in every city
and lack of bread in every town,
I also withheld rain from you
when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
but withheld it from another.
One field had rain;
another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water
but did not get enough to drink,
Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
I struck them with blight and mildew.
Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,
I sent plagues among you
as I did to Egypt.
I killed your young men with the sword,
along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,
I overthrew some of you
as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,


Sometimes I look at what I'm struggling and think, "Why is God doing this to me?" It's hard to understand sometimes why God, who takes on a loving father figure in my life, would not shower me with blessings and riches. The passage above might make you think that same, but at the end of each stanza, which I did not type, there's an answer to the question. "...yet you did not return to me" is what it says at the end, and today this Bible passage really hit and broke my hardened heart into pieces. Sometimes it's actually harder to seek and praise God when our relationship with Him is "good". We are quick to forget that He is the center of all things and that we are his creation. We forget that our hearts are made to be filled up with His love rather than those of the world, and that's when our hearts become hardened. As long as sin is inside of our hearts, God will continue to show us this uncomfortable and sometimes harsh form of His grace. Rather than viewing our struggles and hardships as a sign of God's unfaithfulness to us, let us see it as a sign of rescue and love. It will sometimes be more painful than it should be, but that's God's love...that's real love. His unwillingness to compromise or settle with our hearts being sinful is a true sign that He loves us. The fact that He's spending time taking care of us like that is...amazing...and humbling at the same time.


Let us not seek reasons to believe God, rather seek God himself...

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