Drink of it

    I have always enjoyed life. I have always for the most part been happy. I have always had a lot of suffering. I have had brutal migraines since I was 11. I mean in and out of ER, migraines. I have had knee trouble since before high school even. When things kept piling up I was all the more determined to live my life. However, it was out of anger I did so. I did it to beat the things that were causing my suffering. Looking back that mindset was silly.
   I still have quite a bit of struggles. I will for the rest of my life. It is now that I rejoice in them. It isn't that I love to suffer. I just have trust that Jesus Christ is all sufficient. That whatever path that my life takes it is one that He has already seen. He already knows the rocks, the bumps, even the smooth portions of that road. I could always say I took a wrong turn. I should of went down that path. Jesus is all sufficient, however. He isn't up there thinking"Oh, no she wasn't suppose to go that way". He knows every move I have made. He knows my every struggle, fear, doubt. and He knows this world.
   As a parent it is very difficult to think as Jesus as the all sufficient isn't it? It is easier to watch our childrens' every move. Make sure they get the best that this world has to offer. Wait?!? This world really doesn't offer much except the promise of suffering and death. If we depend on filtering what parts of the world our children are exposed to it will result in what?  Our children will have some suffering and they will have a physical death. This world was made for us by God. It is certainly a place of wonder. It, however, does not secure our children. It is the work of Christ that secures them. The all sufficient Christ.
  Obviously, I'm not going to take my kids skydiving anytime soon. We were put in place as a overseer of our children. It does not mean we go overboard on some of these things. As parents we go overboard quite often. We decide that something that is completely sufficient to eat is not good enough. We decide that they shouldn't play with certain things that don't harm anybody. We decide that the doctor just doesn't know what they are talking about. We worry too. Where is Christ in all of that?
  We have decided He is not sufficient enough. We have decided that our kids will only make it in this world because of us. We are sadly mistaken. I can't say what if I did something this way. Christ already had my life planned out. Just like He has my childrens' lives planned out. In their struggles He will do His work. Like He has done with my life. It is so hard for a parent to say "here is my child".
   We say the glass is half full or half empty. It really doesn't matter. God can make a drop seem like an ocean. While we stifle His all sufficient work on the cross we thirst. Let Him provide that ocean of water. Let Him be the all sufficient that He is suppose to be. Drink of it.