Do You Feel All is Lost in Your Life Because of the Suffering You are In?

Suffering and pain is one of the hardest mysteries man has to face. Many have lost faith because of this.

So how can we look at suffering and not lose hope?

Imagine you found a book, The Two Towers of The Lord of the Rings. But the book you found lacked the last chapter. The book ended with the Orcs seizing Minas Tirith and defeating the humans. You would think that it was a depressing novel!

Because who have not read what happens next, which is the Riders of Rohan arrives at the break of dawn and defeated the invading Orcs, you would have miss the glory of the ending of the novel.

Sometimes when suffering and pains hit us, we feel that all is lost. This is the end. We have a tendency to summarize our life in that painful moment. And we fall to discouragement and even despair.

But what we forget is that this moment is only a chapter in the story of our life. The story does not end, unless we choose to end it.

God is the Divine Story teller. He directs everything that happens in our lives. Yes, even the painful ones He permits for the greater good.

If it was not for the danger of Sauron of taking over Middle Earth, the humans and elves would have not united. The evilness of Sauron became the reason of their unity, and eventually peace in the lands.

Heroes are born in crisis. It was in the darkest moment of the story when Aragorn took on his kingly role and lead the victory. We can see in history that men’s greatness shone during the worst of times. Churchill became great during the Nazi era. Martin Luther King became great during the heights of racism towards the black people in America. And we can see with other great people like Gandhi, John Paul II and Mother Teresa, all of them became great not because it was the best of times. Their greatness shone because it was the worst of times.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars shine.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ” – Charles Dickens

We must remember that when suffering hits us, it is not the end. It is only a chapter in our lives. And the chapter continues. And we move on.

We must have faith in God that He has a beautiful ending for our lives. All we have to do is to make it there.

-daxx