Today's quiet time topic was about troubled lives and how it is basically our fault that we have strife everyday, especially without God in our lives. Eh, I'm a little hesitant to believe that all of our problems can be prevented by being a Christ Follower. All peoples, of all categories, go through problems in life. While I understand what the devotion is saying, it makes me wonder whether or not anyone is truly at a happy state, completely and honestly satisfied with what we have.
It seems that every week at church, someone is telling me to give up my problems to God. While I know in my heart that I had done that weeks ago, it makes wonder how many others are struggling at this time. Looking across the board, everyone has something 'bad' in their life that they want to improve. Yes, God can make everything better when you trust Him, but will I ever get to the point where everything will click? Even for a moment? Or is that impossible, not because God would never allow us to be completely happy, but because true happiness and contentment is humanly impossible due to our nature.
When it comes to human nature and our natural state, I love talking about nothing more. If you don't know, I believe that our Number One, with a capital N and O, instinct in life is to reproduce and pass on our genes. I know that can go against the Christian theology of "We're here to praise God," but biologically I believe, just as Freud did, that all we want to do is live forever, and thus, pass our genes on. College, jobs, relationships, etc. are all our ways of making sure of this. And when it comes between biology and spirituality, I'm more likely to caution on the biological side of things. We do what we are programmed to do, not by morals or ethics. That is why it is so easy to sin and hard to pray and give offerings.
So I propose that maybe Christianity is a never ending journey that has no moments of pure contentment; that it is always a struggle. Obviously, to find this answer all I needed to do was to ask a veteran Christian whether or not life has been easy. I'd probably get a "It's been great with the Lord" type of answer, which is fine. I know life is great with the Lord. But what I'm looking for is contentment and perfection, states of being that seem to elude Believer and Non-Believer alike.
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