Thursday, July 25, 2013

Feeling Crushed

So I’ve started playing this game called “Candy Crush.”  You may have heard of it.  If not, it’s a spin on the classic “match three to move” games that have been popular over the past decade or so.  But this one is super addicting, and sometimes super hard.

The more I play it, the more I think they should have named it “Soul Crush” because that’s what it often does to me.  Trying over and over and over and over again for days at a time to beat a level is exhausting.  Never having enough moves or enough lives or enough patience is draining.  I hate it, and yet I can’t stop playing it, even though it just leaves me feeling more crushed every time.  Sometimes, no matter what I do, no matter how many awesome moves I make, I just can’t seem to win.
Sometimes life leaves us feeling crushed.  We feel as though no matter how hard we try, life just doesn’t seem to work out.  For some of us, no matter how hard we work, we never seem to get that promotion.  Or no matter how much we give in a relationship, we seem to get nothing back.  Or no matter how much we pray or follow God, it’s like He doesn’t even notice us.  These are the moments when I have to remember that God is not an “instant” God.  All through the Bible, people have had to wait on God’s timing, but when it was God’s timing He came through in unbelievable ways.  When we feel crushed by life, that’s the moment when we should stop and listen to God, because He is quietly whispering to us “keep going…keep going…I have big things in store for you… but you have to keep going.”  When life crushes us, God seeks to fill us back up again with Himself.

Oh, wait, I gotta go.  I’ve got another life in Candy Crush.

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