Finding God in a Cheeseburger

As most of you know, I have a good long commute to and from school. Last night I was driving home from the campus ministry I lead worship for and I started reminiscing. I've been all over the place the past four years. I've transferred colleges like three times and it's taken me all over Georgia and the east coast. I've enjoyed seeing a bunch of places and getting to experience different things. One of the best things I can recall is a place called Sheetz. To my knowledge, they only have Sheetz starting in the upper parts of North Carolina and getting into Virginia. Now, Sheetz is not your average convenient store. They have gas, they have snacks, but they also have a made-to-order food station including the coveted cheeseburger on a pretzel roll.

As a side note, I would drive up to Sheetz just to get one of these burgers.

Anyway, you go in, build your burger on a touch screen and then they bring it out to you like five or ten minutes later. Best thing ever.

I thought of this last night because I was hungry and I live in Georgia with no Sheetz. Well, sometimes I get the Sheetz when I eat bad chili or something. (couldn't resist)

God puts good things in our lives for a season because He cares that we know He's there. It's His way of reminding us, "I love you and I'll never leave You, here's a little something to remind you of that."

I believe that if our lives were impeccable and absolutely perfect at all times, we would forget about God. We would forget where those things came from. We would fall into complacency.

On the other hand, I think that God lets bad things happen to remind us that we did fail. He lets these things happen because when we get out of them, we recognize God's sovereignty. I didn't say God "makes" bad things happen, because I don't believe that God would intentionally do anything to harm us, but because of free will and the overall scope of things, He lets things happen. Otherwise, we would be robots without emotion.

Anyway, I'm not saying all of this to start a discussion or to get bogged down in theology, I was just missing a cheeseburger and I'm happy that God has chosen to put great things in my life, even if they're only for a season.