Throwing Out the Logic.

We are going to go through struggles in our lives. That's a simple fact. 

Some will be more difficult than others, but it's going to happen, whether we like it or not.

Of course, we don't look forward to them... We don't wake up in the morning and think, "Hmm I wonder what crazy difficult things I'm going to go through today!" It just does not happen.

When they are among us, it's only logical for us to get frustrated, scared, disappointed, doubtful, or stressed. It's only logical for us to think that the journey with Him may not be worth it. And it's only logical for us to think that we've lost the foundation on which we had been standing, and things are beginning to fall apart. When we're caught in the middle of trials, let's face it, most of the time we become logically thinking pessimists.

We analyze what went wrong. We worry that our plan has fallen apart. We stress about not being able to get back up after we have fallen. And we begin to consider what we can do to begin to fix what has happened. That's our logic.

But why do we have to think so logically? Why do we let ourselves decide that because the world says our faith isn't logical, it must not be as real as God says it is? Just because things don't go exactly how we wanted them, God must not be present in the situation...?

I'm definitely talking to myself when I say this too, but how absurd is that thinking? How selfish have we become if we completely ignore the fact that Jesus endured the worst of struggles, the worst of circumstances for the sake of every single person that was to walk the earth; including you and including me. 

Jesus paid the utmost sacrifice... And not only did he not once, for one minute, lose sight of his faith; God was with him, every step of the way, and he knew that. He was never abandoned, he never doubted. Jesus never thought as the world did. 

He threw logic out the window. 

While the world was mocking him, betraying him, hating him, and plotting to kill him, his focus was on enduring it all for the sake of the world he loved. Not on the pain and struggles themselves.

Why can't WE throw out the logic? Why can't we decided that we won't think as the world does; that our focus is on something far greater than any of the trials we have to endure while we're here? Why can't we know without a doubt that God is with us every second of every day, and He's never going to abandon us. 

When the world says to doubt, let's hope. When the world says we're weak, let's stand and show that our God is strong. When we face trials, let's rejoice in the fact that we serve a God who will never leave or forsake us. Let's put aside ourselves and our logic and trust fully in a God who is beyond any battle we will fight.

"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken." Psalm 62:1-2