Sometimes our hardships make us question just what it all means. It is so easy to lose focus especially when although you are doing everything "right", things don't seem to go right for you. The story of Job is a perfect example of that. This has happened to me several times in my life and I have been quickly to blame, but now I know better, and just wait.
In an experiment, there are dependent and independent variables to determine cause and effect.
The independent variables are the variables that are changed by the experimenter. The experimenter then checks the effects the independent variable has on the dependent variable.
We have a few known variables that will cause some known effects in our lives like drugs, alcohol etc... but those are not in everyone's lives.
How will the dependent variable, which is you, be affected and in the end measured?
This is the ultimate question that many ask themselves, "What is the end result of my life? What is the purpose of my life?"
Although there are variables that can not be controlled, there are a few that can.
This is the importance of Faith. With faith you have an understanding that God has a plan for us.
An example of people who don't have faith in the plan, are of people who have no stability in their life due to their own actions.
The inconsistencies of the self imposed variables in their lives coupled with the always unknowing and ever changing variables that life itself has a way of giving them, leads to a very unstable life.
? + ? = more ???
This also applies to the person or persons who know that certain variables in their lives will always have undesirable causes and effects in their lives. Should these people complain? Probably not. Do some people get used the effects the variables in their lives brings them? Is that their way of getting some type of hold on the uncertainty?
( Drama + ? ) + Drama = Drama
What about the variables that people consider "normal?" This is another problem. What is normal?
I think that normal has been identified by the wisdom of those that came before us, but that the interpretation of that "normal" has twisted some of its normalcy.
Sometimes the variables given to us at birth are not the one's we want, and so throughout our life we fight them, or use them in a way that is not "normal." And so, the non-acceptance of those variables and how they fit the plan, continues our hardships.
Do you have Faith in the plan?
I think that part of the plan is to have one variable, which is constant. Faith.
