As we walk through life, we find many ups and downs. We are always looking for the better things in life and sometimes we find them, sometimes we don’t. It seems that as long as we get what we want in life, we give credit to God but when everything goes wrong, we tend to blame God. Is it not strange how we get into this way of thinking? I grew up in an abusive home and didn’t really know God until I was in my late forties. I had heard about God but that was the extent of it.

Whether we know it or not, God is always there but it is us that don’t know he is there. I never thought about it until I came to God but when I was about fifteen, I lay five days with ruptured appendix, I should have died but God was there right along protecting me. The doctor rushed me into the hospital and they did emergency surgery. I woke up with tubes everywhere. When I came home I still had a hole in my side because of drainage. I could hardly walk and a turtle would have walked faster. So no matter what we think God is always there with us whether we want to accept it or not.   

Milton Niles