A light in A World filled with "Lights"

 Many people say Life is a gift. They also say life is a beautiful thing. But many times life seems the complete opposite. Pain and suffering seem to face us on a daily basis. And for some of us it seems like we get a worse dose of suffering than our other human counterparts. More so if we are in a battle for our eternal salvation why must it be a battle why can't we just exist in a peaceful paradise.  There are many reasons why our life is an uphill battle. God did intend us too struggle but most of our pain is self inflected pain. We inherit pain and we give others around us suffering. God did not intend us to suffer like this so we cannot blame Him. We might say He allowed the drunk driver to plow his car into our loved one but God also allowed his own son, Jesus Christ to be murdered and die on a tree.  To truly understand why Life is Hard we must understand the passion of Jesus Christ. That God Man endured the uphill battle we endure everyday, He perfected it. He ...

 Evil surrounds us. Whether we accept it or not evil constantly attacks us pretty much every second of the day. Evil has many sources from which it can come from. That being it could come from a spiritual force, other people, or our own human nature.  Being able to discern and stop these evil attacks is a necessity because if we allow ourselves to be bombarded by evil our search for truth is nearly impossible. Evil does not want facts to be known. If evil can prevent us from searching for a God, than how will we ever know that we humans beings are loved by that God and made in His image and Likeness?  Evil is clever. It does not always have to be a suicide car bomb that blows up a bunch of innocent people. The evil I choose to write to you about is the evil of scandal and disguised false lights. Obviously the biggest false light in the the history of the world is Lucifer. He disguised himself as a serpent in the book of Genesis to trick Eve into sin. His whole pitiful l...