I’ve been feeling bummed the past few days, and wondering what it was going to take to get me out of this funk. I don’t tend to worry about my “funks” too often because they don’t come around very much, and when they do, they usually don’t last too long, but I think its impossible to be 100% happy all the time and so these times don’t worry me. But I don’t like the feeling, so I’ve been praying, and reading, and praying more and asking for God’s wisdom and guidance, and spending quiet time, and then praying more.

Last night, on my way home, I asked the question I think we all have asked at one point or another: WHY?

Not in a “Why me?” sense at all (I’m not THAT special), but in a general “Why? Why do bad things happen? Why do we suffer? Why does God let us get sad? Why do we get sick?”  Immediately, what came to my head (which I’m sure was the Holy Spirit directing me back to God’s word) was Job 1:21-22:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb

And naked I shall return

The LORD has given,

And the LORD has taken away.

Praised be the name of the LORD!

In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.

I know we all probably know the story of Job, and know that scripture well, but as I kept reading, I thought, “Man, THIS is suffering! Not the tiny stuff I’m going through!” I feel like I was drawn to the book of Job last night so I could be reminded what true suffering was, and Job was blameless! He was a righteous man in the eyes of God, and yet, he was tested.

What we go through is sometimes so small compared to the omnipotence (One having unlimited power or authority) and omniscience (infinite knowledge, One having total knowledge) of God.

I cannot even pretend to try to understand God’s reasons, I’m  just a mere human..

Then, in the end, I’m reminded of Jesus’s teaching from the sermon on the mount:

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

Matthew 6:26-27

So, all of a sudden, that “funk” doesn’t seem so bad, right?