Hope and Despair

I loved the quote from Professor Corrigan article where it says, "One can never understand what hope is really about unless one wrestles with despair." And I kept thinking about that all week because it's true with a lot of good things. If you don't wrestle with despair you won't know what faith is. Unless you are truly tested by God you will never know how it is to rely and believe in Him. We have to realize when were going through something that we need to rely on faith and grow. Also, with happiness. We would never know what happiness is if we don't go through despair. If we never experienced sadness or frustration we would never really understand our emotions of happiness.

Another part of Professor Corrigans article that I really enjoyed was where it said, "Jesus is more interested in living questions--'follow me'--than in finding answers." Jesus doesn't want us to just sit and keep asking why why why. Just go on and live it out have faith and rely on God. If we sit there saying why why why, we will get no where because instead of living out what God wants us to go through we sit there and contemplate every single thing.


James 1:12

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.


Even the Bible tells us to go through the trials that we will be put through. In the Bible there are tons of examples of people who went through many things, but because they did remain faithful to God they did receive the crown of life. Just to remain faithful is what we should do.

So when put through a tough don't lose faith just think about the good that will come out of it. And don't sit there just asking why.