Do you know the scene where Sully does the scare demonstration for Mr. Waternoose and Boo sees? (I've seen this movie too many times.) Well if you don't remember or haven't seen the movie, you should watch it, and what happens is Boo is scared out of her mind. She's come to love Sully and before that time couldn't see him as scary. She saw him as her protector and friend.
This is the reason sometimes I feel like Boo. I've gone through my life and hit bumpy patches and had struggles but nothing that really made me question God. Nothing that shook my foundation up so that I felt completely lost, kinda like Boo. But, within the last few years, especially this past year, I've been shook up. I've felt lost, and so scared and most of all so confused as to what happened to the God I used to know that was my protector and friend. The things that happened to me lead me to, I feel like continually, ask God, "Why is this happening?? Why? I just really do not understand right now!"
What I've found out through the extremely rough patches is that God IS my protector and friend. This might be a little cheesy but here's the connection, Boo found out by the end of the movie that Sully was who she thought he was in the beginning. It seemed like what he was doing was horribly mean and nasty, but really it was all for her own good because he loves her. The same holds true for me and God. Sometimes it truly, truly seems like what God's doing is horribly mean and nasty and only brings pain but in the end it all works out for my good because He LOVES me!
Psalm 5:11-12
But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may rejoice in you.
For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous;
you surround them with your favor as with a shield.
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