This child is not dead; she is only asleep.
Mark 5:38-42
We live in a confusing world.
We, as Christians, are taught from a young age to live according to God's will, which is all laid out for us in the Bible. If you treat others the way you want to be treated, respect your parents and your neighbor, and abstain from sin, you've earned your one-way ticket to heaven. We're taught that God has a plan for everything, and everyone.
That last part tends to make a lot of people skeptical. How can you worship a God who lets so many awful things happen to his followers? How do you explain cancer? How do you explain school shootings? How do you explain starving children in Africa? Honestly, the explanation is beyond most of us. We don't know why terrible things happen to good people. We have to trust and believe in God.
Faith is believing whole-heartedly in something that is not tangible. We cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste God. But he is almighty, and we feel his presence all around us. He's truly everywhere. He's the trees, the sunset, the oceans; he's your neighbors, your friends, and your siblings. Without him, nothing we appreciate and love would be possible.
There are those that doubt the works of our God. But in the end, "our faith will heal us." Our steadfast belief in God will comfort and save us through these difficult and sometimes dark times we live in.
Will Pickart
