Bible reading: Isaiah 38-39, Luke 12
reel thoughts:
Here's the scene. The king is told that he's going to die. After some moaning and complaining, and after God decides to heal him Hezekiah, later prays- "it seems good to me that I've gone through these struggles, through them all God held tightly to me and never let me tumble".
Really? it seems good that you've gone through these struggles? I've always been baffled by the idea that anyone (myself included) would want to pay for life's lessons with the expensive price of experience instead of getting it for free via someone else's wisdom. Is it really better to 'go through struggles' in order to learn the right things? The verse that I like more than this one (he says it right before talking about the goodness of struggle), "lord your discipline is good. For it leads to life and health." Now that's something I can get behind. Because discipline is preventative care.
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