Read: Romans 8: 26-28“How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?” Matthew 7:11 (NKJV)
Sometimes, because of the circumstances in our lives, God appears unavailable, judgmental, distant, unjust, condemning, neglectful, and even unkind. We look at Him from an earthly, carnal perspective and expect Him to act like a human being instead of a holy, omnipotent God. God’s ways are so much higher than our ways that we often fail to see His provision when it comes, or His love when it is offered, or His direction when He speaks in His still, small voice. Often, we fail to believe it if we do not see it with our own eyes!
In actuality, nothing happens to God’s children that He does not allow. Look at Job! For a season, his life lay tattered and ruined by Satan’s design. What we often fail to realize is that Job sat at Jesus’ feet throughout his whole ordeal. Then, in the end, God blessed Job with an abundance of every good thing, which this life offers. We can learn from Job’s example.
We can also learn from Paul when he begged God three times to heal him of the infirmity in his flesh. God told him, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” Paul accepted God’s answer and surrendered his will to the Lord’s will. King David’s baby was sick. He fasted and prayed for days, begging God to save this child’s life. When the child died, David accepted God’s will, got up and bathed and returned to his kingly duties. Eventually, God gave him another son by Bathsheba, and God chose Solomon to continue the bloodline of our living Savior.
We can take encouragement from the lives of the characters that God chose to include in the Bible. They and all of their fellow soldiers for Christ put up a good fight throughout their lives, but they were all merely human. Life is never as it seems. God puts a silver lining on every black cloud. He causes the earth to revolve, the stars to remain suspended in the sky, and a blade of grass to flourishes before it withers and dies. Therefore, we too can rest in complete confidence that God will work all things out for our good too.
Prayer:
Lord, remind us that in you all things are possible. All humans go to one of two destinations when they die, help us to reach as many as we can, and to help them to choose life and peace rather than the torments of hell for eternity.
Thought for the Day:
We tolerate the intolerable and bear the unbearable only by keeping our focus on Jesus, who keeps us in perfect peace.
