The Sanctuary of God

Suffering, a theme very prevalent in today's world. We often ask "why this is happening to me?" or better yet we blame God and say "Why would a loving God let this happen to me?" We've all been there, you and me both. Now I am not trying at all to get deep theological, I am just producing thoughts that bring light to my faults. But I think when we start to ask those questions is when we lose sight on what we are on this earth forth. Number one, to worship God. You and I were made to worship. It's not about us and it never has. "In the beginning God....." That is who it is about. God.

As I was reading ESPN the Magazine this morning, Kenny Mayne, in an interview with Tim Tebow, said something along the lines of: How can a God pick and choose who lives and who doesn't? How does someone who has cancer live and beat it out while the next door patient dies from it? And Tebow responded in my mind perfectly, He stated that we are to live to fulfill God's purpose for our lives and He has a different purpose for each of us. But the main point was that we are to live for God. And that phrase is thrown around all too often of "living for God". Do your homework and really understand what it means to take up your cross and follow Jesus. Because I dare say with a clear conscience that if you aren't suffering for the cause of Christ then you may not be living for God. It isn't easy, and it isn't always fun. You will lose friends, relationships, and sometimes even family members, but then after all of that the question lies of how much of yourself are you willing to give up in order to pursue God?

And better yet, you may now ask well why do the righteous suffer while the ungodly gain? The world is filled with people who profit in everything they do, but once again we have lost sight on what is most important.


A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.

And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.

-Psalm 73:1-17