Life sucks. God is good. The end.

As I was browsing through Facebook posts the other day, I happened upon one person’s status update describing her horrible, terrible, awful, rotten day.  That might be an excessive description, but you get the picture.  This mom was having a Tough day, with a capital "T".  As I often do, I took a peek at some of the comments that people had written, and one response was particularly engaging and encouraging.   In it, the woman identified with many aspects of the horrible, terrible, awful, rotten day, because the reality is, we’ve all had those kinds of days, and after every mention of each calamity, she qualified it with “God is good.”

Despite everything that goes on in life, despite a horrible, terrible, awful, rotten day, week, month or year, God is good.  Her words, not mine, but I’m owning them and I’ve even put them on a fridge magnet already … “Life sucks.  God is good.  The end.”

My husband is having a horrible, terrible, awful, rotten "season" right now.  Life is hard when you suffer from major depression.  He is my hero.  I am amazed at how well he does to wake up most mornings and keep slogging through life.  He doesn't think he's doing well at all because life just feels so hard;  he has a difficult time recognizing the positives.  Every day that he gets out of bed and gets moving, it is not just a small victory, but a major feat.

I really do believe that God is good.  In the middle of the horrible, terrible, awful, rotten things that go on in my little world, or in the great big world, I choose to believe in my God who loves me and who is, by His very nature, the essence of goodness.  

I'm sure there are those who think I'm naive and this is a trite sentiment and a complete waste of emotional effort, but if I don't have God in my corner, who is for me and what do I have?  God isn't to blame when life sucks.  Life is just like that; sometimes it sucks.  And then there are times when it's awesome and humming along!  God is present in every situation, and I choose to believe and proclaim in every situation that He is good.

Life sucks.  God is good.  The end.

Romans 8:31-39:

 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.