Anyone who offers you an easy answer to life’s complicated problems is trying to sell you something. And there’s a good chance you’re about to get duped, because life doesn’t really work that way. Despite what blogs offer you in their click-bait headlines or what the latest product offers:
There are no easy answers.
When I was looking at the platforms of each Presidential candidate, I realized each one of them stand on platforms of easy answers. We raise the budget here. We limit guns or let everyone have them. We do this, do that. They’re all simplistic solutions that we’ve gone back and forth on for countless years in our country’s history.
No simple answer will ever work. We’ve tried them all. Other countries have tried them. And despite what articles and news reports tell you, they aren’t perfect solutions. There are no easy answers in our government, and most often there are no easy answers in our life.
That’s good, because it leads us to Jesus.
I’m convinced life was intended to be this way because we’re prone to forget about our savior when things are good. If there were easy answers, we would be able to do everything in our own power. Enough creative thought and gumption would solve the world’s problems.
But that doesn’t work.
We were never meant to be the solution to our own problems. We could never fulfill the laws of God and the perfection He desired for us. That was the plan from the beginning, so that we’d be ready for a savior. And we will only find the answers by continually looking to Him.
There can be peace in our striving.
That can be frustrating, but only if we’re unwilling to fully rely on the guidance of God. Perfect peace is found within resting in His plan. And I get it, that’s tough. That’s where the striving comes into play. That’s where the idea of no easy answers lives. But it’s the truth.
I don’t know the answer, but I know the One who does.
The answers are never easy. But they are there when we learn how to rest within the plan of the One who can provide those answers. We just have to strive to stay close to our God and find the peace of trusting in Him.