Its crazy to think that through all the hardships and difficult circumstances in our lives that Jesus empowers us to not only move past those, but to relish our hearts in how He feels. That He opens opportunities that we can choose to step into or not choose to step into. That through the things that we struggle with the most, that hurt the most… we blame Jesus for. But like I was watching in a documentary today, these women who had lost their husbands in 9/11 and now are widows with families. So they had a choice to be angry, they had an opportunity to live in a life that would ultimately destroy them with depression. These women chose not only to reach out to one another, and the widows of the states but then they asked the question, what about the women of Afghanistan? What about the other side? The women who lost their husbands, but are living in much more bondage and can’t really grieve and reach out like we can here. They made a choice, and here they are now, loving the widows of Afghanistan. “If we can teach love and kindness instead of hatred, we believe that is how terrorism will end.” So we make a big deal out of it here in America, but they live with these grievances in poverty and forgotten.
Something to think about. When we live in grief, or in the midst of a disaster, one: where do we shift the blame? and two: what about the other side? or our neighbor?
And when a disaster happens and we immediately we shift the blame to Jesus, is there another reason that you have such a deep reason to blame someone, or something?
and if you have netflix, you should watch Beyond Belief.
I encourage you, to give 10 minutes to check out this website and read some of the realities. After reading it, no wonder Jesus tells us to take care of the widows.
James 1:26-27
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless. Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
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