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Glory Jalepeña!

By Ryan, January 16, 2006

Ever since Al Fike (my favorite stand-up comedian) said that, it’s kinda turned into my catch phrase. When Al Fike said it, though, he was talking about “how hard it is to praise Jesus while you’re going through some kind of traumatic experience like being beat.” He said that he could have been yelling “Whoo, yes! Thank You Jesus for this whippin!” But let’s be realistic. Does it really make sense to praise Jesus when you’re fixin’ to die!? No. And doesn’t God know it! So now we get to the million-dollar question: Why does God let bad things happen to us? Why is there pain? Or, in other words, if God knows it’s hard for us to praise Him during pain, why does He send it our way?

There are many answers, but the two I heard at church yesterday are my favorites. The first came from a confused little kid: “If God didn’t give us pain, then He’d have to give more pain to Jesus on the cross, and then Jesus wouldn’t be able to come back alive.”

But the second one came from the pastor himself. I’m not perfect, so I hardly remember the whole sermon, but what I do remember is that pain comes from man. We have free will, so it’s our own dang fault we have to endure this stuff; we allowed pain to rule our lives. I like the Princess Bride philosophy: “Life is pain. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is selling something.”

Let’s backtrack real quick. Free will, right? There’s no point in Him creating us if we’re forced to love Him. It has the same effect as giving yourself a gift... it just isn’t as special.

I hate pain, but I’ve learned to accept it. Adios.

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