#quotes about life
So I have this thought, and that is: in the Bible, usually the “repent and turn from your wicked ways” was directed at people who were claiming to follow God already but were really not in their hearts, while the “good news” was proclaimed to the rest of the world. And I think today Christians get it wrong because they go all “repent and turn from your wicked ways” on people outside Christianity, when they really should be going “hey I have some really good news for you” and I think that’s at least partially why Christians have such a bad reputation in the world. Because people outside Christianity don’t need to be told “you’re evil and my religion is the only cure”, they need to be told good news like “hey you feel hopeless here’s some hope!”
Why does the storm rock the flower
That gives it’s sweetest pollen to the bees?
Why does our God promise prosperity,
Then leave us tortured and broken on our knees?
Why does the sweetest fruit in summer
Always get picked away to rot?
Why does the happiest moment of our lives
Turn into just another nostalgic thought?
Why do the bad things come
To ruin all the pure?
Leave the faithful broken,
Equip the corrupt with the cure.
Why do bad things happen?
A question I can’t understand
As I stare into his pained eyes
And try to feed him some comforting lies.
His father left, and mother has cancer
How can I give him a satisfying answer?
He doesn’t deserve all that’s come his way.
All he did was love.
And what he loved was taken away.
r.t.
