Everything for a reason?

Everyone always says, 'Everything happens for a reason. Wait it out.' But do you ever really believe that? I think that, especially for the people who have grown up in some sort of church, this is one of those things that have been slammed in our heads so many times, it lost all effect. But I wanna take you back to that, I wanna explain how everything does happen for a reason. 

When my best friend passed away a few years ago, the passage from Ecclesiastes was everywhere. It was plastered on everything. It's the time for everything passage, "There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven. He has set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." (v.1, 9)

Basically saying, there is a time for everything. It's no surprise to the Lord. And you'll see the blessing one day. 

Well, honesty. I didn't like that. I didn't think that God would really know my future, and if He did then how the world did my best friend dying have to do with anything? I just didn't understand it. And as far as I really could wrap my mind around it, I defiantly didn't agree. 

Okay, turning the tables for a minute. This has been the absolute most insane year of my whole entire life. Ever. Ever. And probably, ever. There were suicides, lost relationships, run aways, brokenness; basically, whatever you can imagine.. it happened this past year. But something sorta changed. 

God decided my expectations on the out come wasn't good enough. 

He didn't like what I wanted to happen. He wanted more. 

I just wanted it to stop. I wanted the hurt to stop. Christ, saw more than that. 

And because He saw more, I see more of Him.

What's my point?

If you would have asked me 4 months ago why all those bad things happened to us, I would have had no answer. Now? This is my answer. It's simply a living testimony. It's undeniable. It's not ignorable. It's absolutely unbelievable. 

God took my pessimistic expectations and made them Christ sized. 

All that to say, every thing happens for a reason. Not in a cliche way that you hear everyday.. but everything happens for His reason. 

That reason? Just wait. Because whatever your thinking, Gods going to magnify more than you will be able to keep in.

The reason is more than you will ever contain. 

Be excited. 

:)

Ps. twenty days.