Lenten Reflection - 21: by Eli Bauder, Solid Rock Youth

READING: John 2: 13-22

Have you ever experienced a period of hopelessness, loss, or trouble in your life? If you've been living on this earth, you probably have. And if you've ever prayed to God to help you through your trouble, you will have found out this little token of advice: God is brutally honest. Lost your job? God will console you, yes, but he will also tell you to suck it up and head to your garage and find that dust-infested resume of yours, and start job hunting. Bad grades? He'll tell you to stop watching TV and start studying. He may not say the things you want to hear, and He will probably say things that seem out-of-place and not called for. But later those same words you hated to hear in the first place will make you realize the reason you became Christian in the first place: God ALWAYS loves you. And he's the only one on the face of this earth that loves you so much that he will tell you the stuff that you don’t want to hear to make it through. Your friends and family are always going to side with you, console you, make you feel better; it’s because they don’t know the other side to the story. God is omniscient. He knows everything, even the stuff that doesn’t come out of your mouth. God’s advice is not always going to be that things are going to be alright, and your problems will go away by themselves, and you will get that free Porsche you’ve always wanted. But you should always know that he will give you the right advice, every time.