God is Great

I write a lot about sad things. So I just want to make it absolutely clear that God is not just good. God is great. 

I originally wrote this post on my 21st birthday and I'm just publishing it now. In a single day, God honored me and blessed me more than I imagined he would for a long, long time. I did everything wrong the day before. I was convinced I'd have to fight to make my birthday happy. Then he saved me and poured out blessing on blessing on me. And on my birthday too. I can't help but think. "If this is how happy I can be now, how much more will I be happy for the rest of my life, and on the final day of this world and the start of the next."

We have to hold on to the happy times. Partially because it's so easy to forget them, but also because they are just a taste of what's coming.

Depression, pain, and unhappiness will ultimately be just a footnote in the history book of Eternity. That doesn't stop them from hurting now, but they will not last.

Almost everyone lives through something that makes them think "Nothing will ever make up for this. No matter how happy things are after this is over, nothing will ever be enough to cover over this." But there will be. And more than that. When God returns, Heaven will not just be enough to make up for every horrible thing that has ever been done in the world. But it will be so good- he will be so good- that it will be more than enough.

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov