AIN’T NOTHING EASY ABOUT LIFE

By Maurice Cook

Often, I thought that “life isn’t fair”! Then I questioned if I wasn’t given the choice of being brought into this world, then why do I keep getting dealt with the toughest hand?

I didn’t feel like I truly fit in with anybody, not even with my own family. I believed that no one really understood me, supported me, nor was there a person that I could truly trust.  Honestly, whether how I felt, in thought, was fact and/or some untrue thinking, no one had the right to tell me I was wrong because whatever the case may have been back then, it was my reality at the time. However, what I do know now is that my life was much harder without Jesus in it.

Reflecting on my past, I wish I had tried out God sooner. Because if the life I lived felt so unfilled and lonely without Him in it then, I had nothing to lose with inviting Jesus into my emptiness.  After I finally decided to try this God thing out through Jesus, I surprisingly had my life filled with more favor, love, success, hopefulness, satisfaction, and opportunity than I could ever have imagined for myself.

God said in Jeremiah 29:10-14 that He knows His thoughts toward us are not for evil, but for a future and a hope.  I now believe God at His Word. Where the world looks down on, judges, laughs at, and shuns people like me, whom they consider to be weak, not smart, and unpopular, God has lovingly chosen me to be the exact type of person whom He uses to shame the worldly wise, the self-dependent strong, and the pridefully popular.

The Lord has given me a life full of rewards at the end of my struggles, an inner peace and happiness that comforts me even when everything else around me seems to be a mess.  He has given me the ability to accomplish things I enjoy doing and some new Christian family members who have supported me more than others I have known my whole life.  God is good!

In closing, I’d like to say this, if you feel unimportant, unaccepted, weaker than others, not as smart as most, unsure about your life and/or frustrated by the bad things that keep on happening to you again and again, then try life the Jesus way! You are just the type of person who He is looking for to use for great things in this world.   Besides, what do you have to lose?  Except that which God could give back to you seven times more. So, life may not be easy at times, but at least with Jesus it sure has gotten a lot easier for me!

Peace and blessings!!