Hey, hey, hey, 💯💯💯. Welcome back! Ouu, honestly, this brave series is one thing I am totally grateful to have begun. The testimonies? I can’t begin to emphasize. Hmm… Today, today is different, as much as every day is unique, on this episode of the brave series, it’s quite unusual.
This young girl,” IreOluwatomiwa Agbe Davies”, shares a very short but key story.
Please read, read and re-read 💯💯. God bless you and Enjoy 💥
“I’ve always agreed with the statement, “God is good” for no particular reason but I guess I was being influenced and I did not fully understand it. Sometime in April, I began to question God’s goodness, because of a lot of things but mostly because of the death of 3 of my friends who died in January, February, and March! The first three months of the year.
I usually get bothered about people’s death, even the ones I have never met before or random posters I see on the road but this time the burden was a lot more. I reached out to my mentors, friends and even went as far as posting on social media, “Convince me that God is good” so that someone could explain the goodness that they were seeing, cause I clearly wasn’t seeing it and I felt like if I had ignored the burden and refused to find my way to believe God’s goodness, I would probably be on my way to being an atheist.
I did this because I was really bothered about it, I couldn’t go 10 minutes without thinking of people’s death. They all gave answers like, “he gave you life”, “He saved me from an accident” and all that but I wasn’t satisfied, that wasn’t really what I wanted to hear. I needed a plain answer as to why bad things happened to people, why newly born babies die after all the struggle, why people have accidents, why people fail after reading so hard, why the poor would always be amongst us, I didn’t accept the, “everything happens for a reason” statement anymore. I really felt like God could just vanish all the bad elements on earth because he is almighty!
Guess what?
I didn’t get a literal answer but days after I reached out to people it sort of just came to me that, “regardless of if good things happen all the time or not it does not change or underestimate the quality of God’s goodness”.
It’s like saying, “I’m a girl” and someone is trying to argue that I’m not.
Good things happen, yes!
Bad things happen too, yes!
But God is actually really good and nothing that happens is enough to counter it.
I learned that some situations would question your belief in something and help you figure out why you really should believe it, if not you’d just keep following the crowd and I also learned that there is ALWAYS a reason for everything whether we like it not!
To be honest, I’m really glad I encountered this phase because I’d probably still be following the crowd and not understanding it for myself.”
What do you think? God is good despite what we experience. It’s no doubt, many people have died, in these few months that have passed, it’s almost like death is the norm, and it’s unfortunate, genuinely, questions will flow through the mind questioning this God. So many unfortunate things have taken place. I am sorry to all those who have lost a loved one 💓, I really am. It is well. Faithful is He, always 💯.
Ire dear, thank you for sharing this, God bless you and strengthen your faith. Thank you 💓
Boye Paulina Sharon
13th, June 2020
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