I juts wanted to take a few moments to talk about something major that occurred this weekend in a place very near to my heart and why I didn't respond appropriately.
If you weren't aware, this week, the hurricane from hell invited herself into homes across Caribbean Islands such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, completely leveling a couple more, and made it's way to Florida as a category 4 storm. This is the 4th hurricane in the past 2 weeks that have been over a category 2 that hit land. 2 hit North America, 2 hit some Caribbean islands, and one hit Central Mexico (just a day after they had an 8.2 earthquake). During all of this, my anxiety was so high, seeing as I have friends in Miami, Orlando, and Puerto Rico. I let Satan control my thoughts. He told me that a good God wouldn't allow this destruction to happen. At times, I believed him. Like God controls everything so why is He allowing all this to happen? I even was at a point where I didn't want to live because this world is just getting worse and worse and there is nowhere safe to live anymore. I wasn't praising God in the storm. But when I got a notification on my phone that my friend from Miami snapchatted me at the end of my lunch break at work, for the first time in almost a day. Not even 5 minutes before that, I tweeted the following:
That was maybe the first time during this chaos that I actually gave God the praise. I wouldn't call the snapchat a reward but maybe He was holding it off until I could actually say that He is good no matter what.
So why do we as humans do this? We have to stop letting Satan into our brains. If you have the YouVersion Bible App, there's plenty of studies on there about anxiety and trusting God. Next time something like this happens, I've learned and will praise Him no matter what. Because next time, I could be in the middle of the disaster.
Until Next Time, Alex
If you weren't aware, this week, the hurricane from hell invited herself into homes across Caribbean Islands such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, completely leveling a couple more, and made it's way to Florida as a category 4 storm. This is the 4th hurricane in the past 2 weeks that have been over a category 2 that hit land. 2 hit North America, 2 hit some Caribbean islands, and one hit Central Mexico (just a day after they had an 8.2 earthquake). During all of this, my anxiety was so high, seeing as I have friends in Miami, Orlando, and Puerto Rico. I let Satan control my thoughts. He told me that a good God wouldn't allow this destruction to happen. At times, I believed him. Like God controls everything so why is He allowing all this to happen? I even was at a point where I didn't want to live because this world is just getting worse and worse and there is nowhere safe to live anymore. I wasn't praising God in the storm. But when I got a notification on my phone that my friend from Miami snapchatted me at the end of my lunch break at work, for the first time in almost a day. Not even 5 minutes before that, I tweeted the following:
Just have to keep telling myself that God is good all the time.— Alex ϟF (@VanderSPOCK) September 11, 2017
That was maybe the first time during this chaos that I actually gave God the praise. I wouldn't call the snapchat a reward but maybe He was holding it off until I could actually say that He is good no matter what.
So why do we as humans do this? We have to stop letting Satan into our brains. If you have the YouVersion Bible App, there's plenty of studies on there about anxiety and trusting God. Next time something like this happens, I've learned and will praise Him no matter what. Because next time, I could be in the middle of the disaster.
Until Next Time, Alex
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