The Project of Me

God volunteered Job. It wasn't that Satan had already targeted Job and God allowed it to happen. Satan came looking for someone to accuse and God suggested Job. Why do bad things happen to "good" people. The Bible tells us that no one is truly good. But Job was presented as blameless and upright ( Job 1:1 ). The same word used to describe Job is used to describe the animals offered as sacrifices. So you could say Job's lived his life as a pleasing sacrifice unto the Lord. That's about as close to being a "good person" as you can get. When Satan came before God, he was looking for a follower of God's he could attack and make God look bad.   And God said, " What about Job? " Satan challenges God, saying the only reason Job follows God is all the wealth God had blessed him with. "Take it all away and I bet Job will curse you to your face!" Satan wanted to prove that people only follow God when it benefits them ( Job 1:6-12 ). H...

" If God worked in ways that we could understand, then he wouldn't be an awesome God." -17 year old me May 31, 2009 was the start of a lifetime of learning to trust God with what I cannot control. I had my first ever seizures in the church bathroom on a Sunday morning, was diagnosed with viral encephalitis, and spent 18 days in Children's Hospital. I lived 8 years with no seizures and no complications. But in 2017, I started having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Today, my seizures are mostly controlled by medication with my last "big" seizure being 3.5 years ago. But epilepsy still forces me to daily trust God with my health and wellbeing. When I read through the posts written by young me on this day throughout the years, there's a part of me that wants to say to that younger version of myself, "Just wait... you have NO idea what's coming." But I think adult me needs to listen to young me instead. Jesus tells us to have childlik...