Being a Christian When You Are Struggling in Your Life

The hardest time in our life to be a Christian is when we are facing struggles.  It is very easy to blame God for our struggles.  It is easy to think that the struggles are happening to make us stronger.  It is also easy to say that God is punishing us for not being faithful.

Yet, could it not be that God has nothing to do without struggles.  God loves us and wants us to live a happy life.  God wants us to be free from our burdens.  God doesn’t want us to struggle, yet we are facing struggles a lot of our life.

When you hear God doesn’t want you to struggle what comes to our mind?  If God doesn’t want us to struggle why do we?  God is all powerful why then would God just stop our struggles or even never let them occur in the first place?  How can we stay faithful to God when we are just trying to make it through the day?

Could it not be if we do not struggle we would never build our relationship with God?  We need to think on this a minute.  We all go through different degrees of struggling throughout our life.  How many times have we grown closer to God when we get to the other side?  In most cases, this is exactly what happens to us.  We find that we are closer to God because of being able to make it to the other side.

Things get more complicated when we have chronic illnesses.  We struggle daily with things that slowly are getting worse.  How can we grow closer to God in these moments?  It is easy when you think about it this way.  Even though you are going through chronic illnesses, you can find multitude of blessings.  You can discover that there are good days.  There are days in which you were able to do things that you thought were impossible.  In most situations, God opens a window for us to go through and utilize the skills that we do have. 

You will always have limitations sometimes to the point that we cannot work.  Yet, there are little things we can do that will make our life complete.  You may never know today may be the day that you wake up and for a few minutes forget that you are unable to do what you love to do.  Those moments are blessings from God.

Then there are those moments when we face death of a close friend or family member.  How are we able to stay close to God in those moments?  Are we not quick to blame God for their death?  We question why did God take our friend or family member?  We all know these are things that we have thought when someone died. Yet, let us look at this a different way.  What if God is taken that person home so that they no longer have to struggle?  Could it not be that God is giving the other person a blessing?  When we look at it this we can see that God isn’t an evil, retaliating God.  Instead we can see that God is a loving God that does not want his people to struggle.

We have to remember in all things God is carrying the heaviest part of our burden.  You have to remember that God only gives you what you can handle.  The rest of the struggle God is carrying.  Each one of us can handle different amounts of struggles.  Thank god for carrying the weight.  When the struggle is over thank God for helping you make it through it.  In the end remember that our struggles can turn into something positive in our life if we look for the lesson that we could learn and not repeat the same mistake.