Faith

Many a times, we tend to believe that we of the same faith embraced in Christ automatically means we have no more problems in life. Accept Him, and we are bigger than life. Believe in God, and we are not supposed to have any more issues in life. And if we really do face problems..be it external circumstances or internal issues, then there must be something wrong with us.
Are we "not having enough faith" ?
Or are we not spiritual enough?
Do God love us lesser?

Try Sharing your heart to other fellow believer, and most will give you that pitiful and sorry look and immediately quote you biblical verses. I wonder how much do they really care to listen and understand the issue , or are they just immediately trying to recall some bible verses in their mind to just throw out a nice answer. Not all are like that by the way, it does happen.

Take note, I am not writing this based on myself,at least not solely but something I do observe many years as a faith-follower.

In contrast, I usually respect friends who are sincere in their struggles and make no effort in sugar coating them. I tend to appreciate them more, for being open and honest, it makes them ...well human! Also I find these people are the ones who usually get things done in Ministries in despite their problems.
On the other hand, many are really good at just talking eloquently (praying beautiful prayers, quoting scriptural words in their own comfort) but you will see less action from them :).

Good facade I would say.

I rather have sincere friends whom are honest with their imperfections than friends who puts out a perfect "halo" but are fake inside.
Honestly, it kinds of bugs me, disgusted to say the least.

Lets be real.
My stand on this view is that we of the same faith are still human. We have the same problems like everyone else. External issues, like cancer, job loss , accidents, all do happen at the same rate as everyone else. And the same goes with our internal struggles, I know of friends(Christians by the way) with depressions, suicidal thoughts, relationship issue, even same sexual orientation tendency and many more.And friends sharing with us doesn't do that because we always have the right answers,but because they trust us enough for a listening ear!

And strangely,we don't tend to share this thoughts openly because "Christians are not supposed to have this kind of problems" . What gives the right to judge?And Maybe thats what makes honesty very hard in this sense. Too judgemental we could be sometimes. And that's why I sometimes do feel it's easier to share some things more openly to my friends from a different faith!

I remember a verse I think in Ecclesiastes,that says somewhere along the line, that the sun shines and the rains fall on both the good men and the bad. Which I believe it meant that the same circumstances falls on everyone as long we are living in this planet no matter Christian or otherwise. And everything said, my stand is that we do acknowledge our problems are real, and big....but Our God is Bigger and in Control!

So really,what supposedly makes us as Christians different from others?
Its not because we are supposed to have all the answers to every problems.
(And please stop acting like one)
I personally think ideally we should be different by the love we show and ACT out. And if we cant even begin by caring our own members/friends of the same faith, like pretending everything will be alright after a some few minutes prayers and then totally forget about it, then I think this is just a hypocritical show we run every week :)

Alrights,actually I am writing this in response to a very close friend who takes courage in sharing personal issues and struggles.I appreciate that friend even more.

Just some food for thoughts unleashed here :)