Oh love

The gift of love that we receive every day is something that we can not take for granted. All of the time that we spend living our lives, we take for granted the things that some people can honestly say they don't have. The biggest gift of love that I know is the God breathes life into us every day. He gives us the blessing of life, and even in the hard times of our lives, which everyone in the world goes through, we need to know that by just being alive that we are truly truly blessed. I know that when a lot of people go through a rough time in their lives, they like to start blaming the world or worse yet, God. They believe that God is putting them through it. I like so many others have been in those places where we think we need someone to blame for all of our problems. In reality, we tend to get very angry with someone when we have chosen to blame someone for our problems. I think that if we fully relied on God, and not rely on blaming everyone else for our own problems, then we would all be able to see that we are all truly loved and blessed. God doesn't want us to blame others for the problems that we have, so why should we? Jesus went through a lot of hardships in His life, but He never once blamed someone else for any bad mood He was in. He was tortured many times. He had every reason to blame someone for all His pain and suffering. Thing is, He wasn't suffering for His own cause. He was suffering to save each and every one of us. Because He loves us so much, that when the time came that He was hanging on the cross, people told Him if He really was the son of God, that he could get off the cross there. He didn't though, because He knew a debt had to be paid. He was thinking about all the sin in the world that there had been, was, and that would be coming into the world. He was thinking about each and every one of us when He died on the cross. He lived a perfect, blameless life. He never once sinned. He went through the same temptation, the same things we did. He knew that His father, and our father was with Him through it all. I believe that if we knew that God was with us every step of the way in any hardship that we could go through, then we would know no depression. We would know no sorrow. We would face temptation just as we all do, but we would know that God the father is watching us, and He loves us so much, that He sent His son to die for us (John 3:16).

I am mostly saying this for myself right now, because I haven't had the best week already and it's only Tuesday. I am also saying this for anyone out there who reads this that is going through any type of hardship to say: You're not alone. You have many other people in the world who go through the same things. Also, you're deeply, undeniably loved. This is the story that has helped me go through anything I have faced since I began walking with Christ with a full head of steam, and that confidence has come from knowing that I am prepared to deal with it because I have God, His son, and His spirit all on my side.
With much love,
TJ :D