I have always wondered what it would be like and how I would respond if God took everything away.
I have been blessed with so much. He has provided more than i could ever need in my life. None of my loved ones have passed away. I have always had food to eat and a comfortable place to stay. I've had financial struggles or worries in my family but things have always somehow worked out. I have never broken a bone not have i ever been deathly ill. Who am i and what have i done to deserve such a blessed life? nothing. i am no one and i have done nothing to deserve it.
I wonder if i'd be able to accept God's wrath/smite if he were to suddenly take everything away. Would i be like Job, realizing that nothing i have i deserved in the first place and that my life is in God's hands? I would i be like the author of the song "It is well with my soul", who, when his wife and children died on a boat on the way to come visit him in Europe, he is able to sing these words:
- When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
- It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
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