So people ask all the time, “if God is so good and great, why does he let bad stuff happen?” and my answer is usually well without evil, there can’t be good. Just like there can’t be light without darkness. Well recently I was reading a book and it was talking about heaven. Actually it’s from somebody’s viewpoint in heaven and they say “I feel my desires, my yearnings my thirst is greater than ever. How can this be?” To which she is told later “Without the thirst, where would be the pleasure and joy? Without the desire, how could the desire be filled?” Which I know realize is so true. Recently I have been growing closer and closer to God, and yet it seems I still want more. I though the more I read the Bible and read Christian books, prayed and lived for Him the less I would hope for more. I though the more I grow the less I will strive to grow. The more I follow him the less I will thirst for Him. Instead I have found the opposite. Instead of it getting easier to follow Him, I find it harder. The more I try and live for him the more I notice my mistakes, and thus have to try and put a stop to them. But, the good news is that the more I desire, the more I’m filled. The more I recognize my failures, the more I can strive to stop them. The more I grow, the closer I get to God. Yet without desire, there would be no filling. Without thirst there would be no quenching. Just like without light, there would be no darkness. Without evil, there would be no good. Without pain, there is no joy. There has to be an opposite.