The Barber

So last night, I was scrolling through Facebook, and there was this video that caught my eye. Of course, I watched it, not realising what exactly it was about. But it touched me, and I feel the need to write about it. So let me retell it in my own words.

After a barber hears his well-known regular say the words 'thank God', something happens to the barber. He finishes his client's hair, and as the man gets up to leave, the barber says, "I don't believe that God exists." 

The man turned around and said, in a calm voice, "Why do you say that, my friend?" 

The barber replies, "When we go out there, we realise THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST. And if God really exists, then tell me........why are so many people hurting?" 

The man's face drew back in sorrow. 

"Why are there so many kids abandoned? Sick people? No, my friend, if God exists, then there wouldn't be any suffering. There wouldn't be so much pain in the world." 

The man looked stunned, at the accusations the barber threw out. 

The barber continued, "I don't understand, how if there is a God, he allows all these things to happen." 

The man takes a breath in, and with a smile replied, "Well, until next time." He tells the barber to have a good day and leaves the shop.  

Standing outside, the man thinks about what the barber had said, and then notices a young man standing close by, with wild curly hair that goes past his shoulders. 

He brings the man into the barbers' shop. "You know something?" he says. 

The barber looks at him, confused. 

"Barbers do not exist." 

The barber laughs. "What? And what am I?" 

To that, the man simply says, "Barbers do not exist, because if they would exist, there wouldn't be people with such long hair as this man has." 

The barber laughs once more. "The barbers DO exist, the problem is that these people don't COME TO ME."

"Exactly,' cries the man, 'that is the point. God exists, the problem is that people don't go to Him, that is why, my friend, there is so much pain and misery in this world.  

This is so true. I have heard people tell me that God can't possibly exist, simply because the world is miserable, and God would never allow it. And that is true, to a degree. See, the truth is, is that God hates to see the world fall apart. He loves each and every one of us, but we can only have happiness if we went to God with our problems. Only He can take them away. If everyone followed the Lord, we would be such a different place. I love Him, with all my heart, and I feel happy every morning when I wake up because I know that he is in control of my day, and wants to only see me love Him continuously. His love never fails us.