The Tribune

By ALESHA CADET

Tribune Features Reporter

acadet@tribunemedia.net

SOME PEOPLE may ask why they must go through heart breaking situations in their everyday lives. Some Christians say it is best to trust that everything happens for a reason. They say it is normal for a person to ask why, but they must remember that God will never lead them astray.

Danae Adderley told Tribune Religion: “Life is full of tests and there is simply no way to avoid them. God certainly has a plan for all of us, and if we just keep faith in him and move through life with a clear head and open heart, we can overcome any test or heartbreak.”
“Asking God why things happen to you, will get you no answer. You just have to trust that you’ll make it through and the sun will always breakthrough the clouds,” said Ms Adderley.

Recalling a troubled past relationship, Natasha Ferguson said: “A few years ago I was in a relationship that constantly broke me down day by day. And I always asked, why God kept bringing that heartache into my life, but I had to take time to myself and realise that God was saving me from something much bigger. I don’t know what exactly it was he was saving me from, but I do know that if I had stayed in that relationship, I would probably still be going through it. And now I am happier and I am blessed by the grace of God.”

International Christian author and speaker Joyce Meyer wrote via her website that people live by their feelings more than anything else much of the time.

“If you listen, you’ll hear people talk about how they feel more than just about anything else. I wonder sometimes if we’re serving the god of our feelings more than the God of the Bible,” she said.

Ms Meyer wrote: For example, someone says, I don’t feel God loves me. Well, he does. Or, I don’t feel I have a future. Well, you can. The bible clearly says God loves us and that he has good plans for us. But when we believe the lies the enemy puts in our mind over the word of God, we will feel like the lies are true and then live like it.”

She went on to say that emotional people make big mistakes when they base decisions on how they feel, rather than obeying God and what they know is the right thing to do.

For Kaylin Smith, she said Christians should view tests and trials as exercise. She said this is their opportunity to exercise their faith and reach a higher level of development.

“God is not the creator of bad and never uses bad to teach his people a lesson. But God can however, make that bad benefit his people if they allow him. When we are tested and successfully overcome our test we reach a higher level,” said Ms Smith.

Julissa Carey said the fact of life is, things are not going to always go as a person would plan. She said the best joys of her life came from horrible issues she had to overcome.

“At the end of the day, your day will come for you to understand why you had to go through whatever it is you went through. I believe in the saying that goes ‘the light is at the end of the tunnel’ and many times I’ve found my light. Instead of asking why, you should ask why not me, because you are not loved by God anymore than anyone else. And today the problems could be mine and tomorrow they could be yours,” said Ms Carey.