God is Always There

One thing I've learned is God is always there. Once you ask the Holy Spirit into your heart, that only makes sense, right?

So that's bad news and good news. On one hand, when you think about the fact that the Holy Spirit is with you while you sin it makes it that much worse. But on the other hand, the Holy Spirit is always there even when you're down and out - you are never doing it alone.

Sometimes it feels like, how am I going to make it? How can we afford to do this? How will we survive that? It feels like we are going through some trial in our lives and it's obvious we have to find a way out ourselves because God is busy with something else - if he was around this bad thing wouldn't be happening, right?

But that's not it at all. God is there. Why do we go through bad things? I think there are several reasons, but here's the biggest two I know of:

1. to make our faith grow stronger and recognize how powerful God is

2. to create experiences that benefit others

Number one is pretty self-explanatory...maybe you are in a dire situation and God opens doors to pull you out of it and you see His hand in it.

I'll expound on number two. Say you are diagnosed with cancer, but you trust God and lean on Him. Then you survive cancer. There may have been someone watching you, maybe (probably) multiple people taking cues from how you acted, and were inspired by your faith. What's more, you now have a connection with anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer...something you didn't have before. God put you through that for the benefit of other people.

God is always there. Even in the little things in life. Instances we come across at work or interactions with people - in all of God's planning he puts people before you, and you can either have a positive influence or a negative one. God is always at work so we have to be at work to seek God's best. It's hard to do, but remembering that he is always there helps remind us to do our best.