Doubts

"I cried out, I am slipping! but your unfailing love supported me, O Lord. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer."
Psalm 94:18-19

Recently, my cousin Drew lost three of his friends in a car accident on their way back from youth group on a Sunday night. They were 16. I must ask you all for something today, your prayers. He needs them, and so do the families of the boys.

My cousin and his friends are strong in their faith. They go to church, they have loving and supportive families and are all around wonderful guys. But something happened, and God needed them to be with him. As hard as it is for me to understand, I accept that. I accept the fact that God has a plan for all of us and that his plan is true and holy and good. His plan has a reason. I never have been able to understand death, human death really. For in God we do not die, and we are survived by our friends, our families, and the memories that we have left behind. We touch people's lives in ways we cannot imagine, and we will never die for them.

I know this to be true because I still hear stories about my great-great-great Uncle Sambo. In family, your legend lives on in facial features and similarities.

Death is frightening, it is sad, it causes us to doubt our faith and to doubt God. Instead, we should be putting our trust into him, relying on him and others while we are lying at the bottom wondering why it had to be them, why them and why now.

God will comfort us, through memories, friends, songs, movies, television, magazines, books. God will steer us towards happiness.

That is my belief.

I pray that you all are having a blessed day.