Blessing or Lesson?

Blessing or lesson?

By: Jailene Marin

There are times in life when we question God; why things happen or why particular people had to come into our lives. I know I have. In the midst of that thought or question, I had my answer. The Lord doesn’t speak to me in a roaring voice, or even by a holy revelation but by my heart, where I know it’s HIM. He uses my life and it’s events to understand why things happen. Crazy right? There are people that we meet that God placed to be with us for our lifetime. Those people are those who we know that aside from God, we can count on, maybe, a friend? Or parents? Or a family member? The word of God speaks of a friendship between Jonathan and David In *1 Samuel 18:1

“As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”

This verse speaks of a friendship that was so great that these two considered themselves as one.

 And another verse that I really like that speaks about friendship is *Proverbs 18:24;

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,

    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

Both of these verses are verifying that there are people meant to stick with us no matter what. And I love that.

Then there are people that are meant to be in our lives for a short while. To give an example, for me I relate this while I was in school, but you can relate this to when you were working in particular place or you moved or whatever the case, there are people that I meet and were in my life for the time that school lasted and eventually both of us moved on to new things. No, there wasn’t any kind of fight or argument but simple that both of us fulfilled the purpose we were meant to complete in each other’s lives and most times no longer see each other. The bible says that there is a time and place for everything in *Ecclesiastes 3: 1-9

“There is a time for everything,

    and a season for every activity under the heavens: 

    a time to be born and a time to die,

    a time to plant and a time to uproot,

    a time to kill and a time to heal,

    a time to tear down and a time to build,

    a time to weep and a time to laugh,

    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

    a time to search and a time to give up,

    a time to keep and a time to throw away,

    a time to tear and a time to mend,

    a time to be silent and a time to speak,

    a time to love and a time to hate,

    a time for war and a time for peace.”

As the verse says, there is a time a place for everything and I believe this is also true for people that come in our lives.

Then we have people who are the reason why we may even question the Lord, those people who have came into our lives and have simply cause chaos and even hurt us. We may even go and say that the devil brought these people to us and maybe so, but God sometimes allows these things to happen. Maybe you’re thinking, “why would God do that to me?” because I have asked this myself. But I truly believe everything happens for a reason. These people may hurt us but at the end, we become stronger and even wiser. We learn a lesson. Maybe we tend to trust to quickly, or get carried away in a situation and we do not think before we act or sometimes we just need a wake up call.

In Romans 8:28  says the following,

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

No matter what the case may be, people come into our lives for a specific purpose and if we trust in God, everything will work out the way it is suppose to. Maybe we will get hurt in this life but we will be stronger for it. I know that God will give me the opportunities one day to help others that may face the same things I have. Yeah, I have had people hurt me but I am a stronger person for it. We have to take everything as a lesson to grow. And knowing when to let go of people that may be wrong for us; not everyone we meet is meant to be with us forever, some only come for a short time.

But we should never forget to give thanks to God for the blessings he has given us who are our friends, our family and anyone else special to us. <3

God bless. <3