Who Cares!

As crazy stuff has been happening over the past couple days I have noticed a few specific things that I wanted to write down and express.

The first being the importance of sharing our ups and downs with one another; this being especially important among the body of Christ.  We tend to want to keep a lot of things to ourselves and think others might not want to be bothered by our problems but that is more unhealthy than anything and far from the truth.  We have been hammered with words and items trying to keep us happy 24/7 that when a stick gets thrown in the middle of our path of pleasure and messes it up, we don't exactly know how to handle it.  It is almost like that speed bump put a damper on our otherwise perfect life and is more inconvenient than anything.  Maybe that is why we don't bother other people with our problems? Because we ourselves do not wish to be bothered.  This selfishness sickens me and I most definitely fall into the category more often than I wish of those people who just don't want to be bothered most of the time.  It is not completely because I don't want them to disrupt my "perfect" life but mainly because I just don't know how to handle the situation and be there for that person.  We never know what to say, do or even how to act when someone goes through even the smallest of obstacles and a lot of the time that is why we try to stay away from the problems.  The only thing is, no matter where we go- problems will inevitably arise, thanks to sin.  We cannot escape obstacles and that is why we need each other.  Who cares what others will think or say?  It should not be our chief concern when struggling with a problem.  The most beautiful people, in my opinion, are those who are the most transparent.  We all have our problems and no one is worse than his neighbor.  I am so tired of comparisons and gossip- we need to work together and encourage each other in situations rather than point fingers at who handled it the "wrong way." I am convinced no two people look at a situation the same way and because of that we cannot judge someone for reacting the way they do.   A great reason why we must tackle problems with other people is because alone we are much more inclined to fail.  We can only handle so much without the push of a friend keeping us going on the right path.  We become weak in stressful situations and let our minds control us- it is in those times that we need a 3rd party to step in and bring us back to reality.  God does not call us to be alone and on our own in this world.  We are to band together and pray for each other.  We under estimate prayer too often and forget that praying is for us, not God.  He does not need our prayers because He is completely independent, however, we are dependent upon Him and therefore need to pray and keep a close relationship with the Lord of the universe.  We have to keep praying for each other, and working together because temptation never goes away and without solid support of people who will drop anything to help, we will end up driving ourselves straight into destruction.  

 ⁹ Two are better than one, 

       because they have a good return for their work:

 ¹⁰ If one falls down, 

       his friend can help him up. 

       But pity the man who falls 

       and has no one to help him up!

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

I was going to continue on into my next rampage of thoughts but considering I am up late and losing battery power quickly because I am too tired to plug my computer in I will just have to post the rest another time.  Plus, I keep mistyping and am about to scream for all the times I have to hit the backspace button....