Why is life so hard sometimes. I mean, why did God make us so that we had to struggle? Trials, temptation. Why? Growing up, I looked at adults (especially those that were Christians) and thought that life was easy for them. They had money to buy what they wanted, they could drive a car, they were almost always happy; life would be so much easier when I became an adult. Adults would say "Don't grow up too fast." Are you kidding me? I couldn't grow up fast enough. I wanted to be rid of all the struggles and temptations that went along with being a teenager. Well, if you are reading this and you have seen your 30th birthday, you know that my thinking was not just a little off the mark! Being an adult is somewhere around 87.3 times more difficult than being a teenager. (Sorry, that is not a scientific number - I just made it up!) After all, is there peer pressure as an adult? Drive the right car, live in the right house, have all the right toys. Somehow the American dream has become synonymous with incurring huge debt. Even the government can't get it right so how in the world can we expect the newer generations to figure it out (sorry, I started getting political and I have always promised myself I would not do that in this blog!)
Anyway, at what point is this going to get easier? My guess is, it will get easy immediately after I take my last breath. I mean, it has only gotten more difficult as I have gotten older, why would it change during this lifetime? Don't get me wrong, life can be great. All I have to do is put my daughter to bed and hear "Daddy, will you rock me to sleep tonight?" and I know that all the struggles in life are worth it. I love my children more than I love my own life. It is the little things that make this life worth living. It is watching my youngest son playing with a homemade bull whip and really believe he is Indiana Jones. It is seeing the smile on my wife's face when I get home from work. It is hearing my 15 year old son say, I love you dad when we hang up the phone. God has made my life so rich but the world has polluted our minds to believe that life should be easy and comfortable. We are sold a pack of lies that life will be better with the next toy or the next pay raise or the next "thing." We spend too much of our lives looking for the next thing that will make us happy and we walk right past the gifts that God gave us. Why do we believe the same world that Jesus said in Mark 13, would hate us? At 44 years old, I have learned the truth but have to undo 44 years of incorrect thought. Hopefully I have 44 years left to fix my tiny little corner of this messed up world. I'm glad that God is patient.
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