You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. Genesis 50:20
I spent some time this morning with w good friend of mine, who (as always) made a few uncomfortable observations... Over the last year or so we have been faced with a number of really big challenges especially relating to our finances. Our faith is a really easy one as long as you ensure that you don't actually allow God too close! If you keep God securely locked in a little box shoved to the back of your cupboard (and you manage to keep Him there) you will find an easy faith. As soon as you open "Pandora's box" and allow God to work in your life then things take on a somewhat different note.
Firstly you discover that God love you without reservation or requirement from your side. Sounds good until you come to grips that God loves you (even when you are living an "upright, godly" life) no more than the local pimp or drug dealer. You are not more valuable than a wife batterer or child molester or murderer...
Then you discover that God actually expects you to relinquish control of your life and trust Him completely without reservation! This means with every aspect of your life, no matter how private or personal!
If you are prepared to BELIEVE GOD then you will realise that we are where we are because of who God is. Yes this is even (or perhaps especially) in the hard times. God is concerned primarily with who we are, and not with what we have! "but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done"
2 comments:
Hey Brett
Brilliant. I love the way you are so honest with your feelings.
Read todays (20 Jul07) entry from this blog www.julnbde.blogspot.com
1Pe 5:6 Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,
1Pe 5:7 casting all your anxiety onto Him, for He cares for you.
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