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A response to the morning devotion…

I didn’t have the time this morning to comment on the devotion that I posted on ‘forgetting God’ and wanted to post some thoughts about it.

First off, I really haven’t posted much on this blog in quite a while and wanted to get back into writing my thoughts here. What brings me back and the reason for the post earlier was because of something I remembered. The sad truth is that we forget alot of what God actually does for us. Not just the little things that God blesses us with every day, the big stuff. The ‘this totally changes my whole worldview’ stuff somehow falls to the wayside. And it does happen way too often in our world.

This devotion really hit home for me because this time last year, I was in the middle of a very unpleasant situation: I was heartbroken and depressed about a series of events. Everything felt like it should have ended like I wanted it to end; that everything just felt ‘right.’ In truth, everything was completely wrong. At the time, I was pretty much numb to sin. I knew what was right and wrong, but still sided with what felt good and right. I hadn’t been to church in a great deal of time, hadn’t cracked open my bible, or even prayed in a great deal of time. And at the time, I was fine with that. I was running my own life, and things were going to be awesome. I am so happy right now that I was so wrong back then. After throwing all of my eggs into this one particular basket, everything fell apart. I was crushed, confused, beat down, and depressed because all of my best laid plans were shattered, the pieces stabbing into my heart, and I felt like I had nowhere to turn. Nowhere and no one except for God. God is awesome and I wish we all realized this more. Even when I knew that I deserved no kind of redemption, no forgiveness, God was still there waiting for me to turn around and run back to Him. And so I ran, but this time in the right direction.

Even after only a year, for me to forget what God has done for me is just sad. And God does this all of the time. We need to remember the trials and tribulations that God brings us through. The periods where we never thought we would make it and God still proves us wrong. We need these memories, not to get depressed about, but to remember that God did that. That God brought us through, made us stronger, made us rely on Him to make it. Do not forget what God has done for you.

I do apologize if this doesn’t make much sense since I am a terrible writer, even with practice. And if you read this whole thing, thank you and I hope you enjoyed it.