Day 111: God Strong:
"In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall" —Psalm 18:29
"Bo had already defeated a foreign army, and now with God's help, he was going to scale the wall back to good health. We set him up with a team of counselors on the base to help him understand what the rest of his life's journey could look like and what God originally intended it to be."
Bo is a soldier who went to see Dr. Anderson because he was suffering from PSTD. Anderson's prayer for him was that "God would give him the will, strength, and fortitude to make it to the other side." He said, "Even those who are Army strong need to depend on our stronger God."
I agree with Anderson regarding our need to depend on God. What I don't agree with is the assumption that God "originally intended" Bo's life to be something other than what it currently is. As if choosing to serve our country and see other places besides the farm upon which Bo grew up, was not the right decision, that somehow Bo had strayed from the path that God had originally planned for him. Perhaps that is not what Anderson means. Perhaps he is speaking of the fact that God does not intend for us to suffer with PSTD. Either way, how does Anderson know what God intends? I guess I just find such statements to be hallow. They are something to say to gain some measure of comfort or control.
I think the only thing we may be certain of is God "works all things together for the good of those who love him..." (Romans 8:28).
I have been leaning on this promise since my best friend reminded me of it months ago as I began this journey back to God. When I question and doubt, when I am filled with fear and anxiety, when I want to cry over the injustice I see and rage against the unfairness of it all, I remind myself of this scripture...this promise.
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