Monday, January 26, 2015

While We Suffer

I hate life and everything about it. Sometimes, while lying sleepless in bed, listening to my wife snore, I wonder if God would send me to hell if I killed myself. It would be easy. I would set up my pull-up bar that I never use and tie myself a strong noose; After all that, I would jump off my office chair, taking care that my knees are bent (wouldn't want to hurt my ankle, after all). That would be enough to end me, and then I wouldn't have to worry about this terrible life anymore. The Bible says that you shouldn't be anxious, yet it says we will suffer. That makes a lot of fucking sense, does it not? The more I read the Bible, the less I like it. You can talk about free will all you want but in reality, does it matter? God designed us knowing that we would be failures and we would all suffer because of a couple's choice and the choices we make based on his blueprint for us.

Stupid fucking Americans think that there is a happy ending for us all, and that is what God has designed for us. Although that's a novel idea, it isn't true. Can a kid starving to death in Africa have the same luxury of thinking that it will all work out in the end when his brother died the previous day of starvation? Those people know more about suffering than most people in America will ever be able to imagine. In real life, after you step out of your pastor's brainwashing sermons, you can't help but look around and wonder if God even gives a shit anymore. It sure doesn't look like He does, and despite the suffering kid's cries, He doesn't answer, instead He gives your pastor a new car or some wealthy white lady the ability to have a child she will care less for than her possessions. Praise God!

-David

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Common Use



                All of my life I have believed in God and that Jesus was the sacrificial lamb that wiped my sins clean. Even in my darkest times, where I felt far away from anything holy and good, I would still pray to God nightly, even if it was only a sentence pleading for life to get better. Despite my belief and my prayers, I have never felt like I am special in God’s eyes. I have never felt God leading me in any way or speaking to me. I have always felt like God answers others prayers the way they would like them to be answered, or at least in a way that they know it was answered, while I sit back wondering if I didn’t speak loudly or clearly enough for God to even hear me. Perhaps He’s too busy. Maybe He doesn’t love me. Then it hit me; maybe I’m just common use. 

                In 2 Timothy 2:20 it is said that some things are made for special purposes while others are for common use. What a thought! God makes some of us common. What does that mean? My favorite definition by Merriam Webster is “characterized by a lack of privilege or special status.” Wow, right? That flies in the face of all the Caucasian, middle class American teaching that we’re all special, does in not? What do special people get that others do not? You guessed it; special treatment.
 
                Is this the reason that my prayers go unanswered?  Is that why God goes out of His way to speak through others in near possession like experiences but doesn’t give me an ounce of anything for all my years of dreadful begging? I think it may have something to do with it. If I’m completely honest, I feel cheated by God and by life. I am unhappy and obsessive and stressed all the time and I can’t get seem to get over it. After about a year and a half worth of serious prayer and reading the Bible, I can honestly say that nothing has gotten better. If anything, I feel worse now than I ever have. Maybe that just goes along with being common use.

-David