All throughout the scriptures God's word tells us that He works for our good, and on our behalf. Sometimes, we simply cannot fathom how a bad thing can turn out to be a good thing, at the time. However, God knows that our suffering produces character in us, teaching us endurance, and perseverance for future situations that will come, and that is the only reason that He allows them to come near us. To teach us to trust Him in all situations, even in those bad and hard times.
Maybe you are going through a tough time right now and have no idea how things will turn out. May I encourage you today sweet friend, don’t allow your current circumstances to dictate your future or your joy. View them as a means of bringing you to a place of trusting God in them and by doing so, your joy will be made complete in them. The enemy's plan is and purpose is meant to try and discourage and destroy you. God’s understanding in them is that everything works for the good, of those who love Him according to Romans 8:28, and that what Satan intends for harm in our lives, God intends for good, according to Genesis 50:20. God's plans are for good; to prosper us and not to harm us as told to us in Jeremiah 29:11.
God’s loving and tender hand can smooth the turbulence that threatens our peace if we will see them from His perspective and the scars that are created by those turbulent times are only road maps of where we have been; and the cross roads that we have chosen to take, as reminders of the right and wrong choices we made.
While our understanding of our situations may be limited and small and mostly focused on the moment, remember that God is focused on our eternity. In realizing that, you may very well encounter the mighty hand of God and understand His purpose better. You may not be able to change your situation, but you can absolutely change your spiritual environment while going through them.
Be sure to choose wisely the directions that you will take in how you look at everything that touches your life. Don’t lose heart, work to see them as God sees them and fuel your faith with hope and only then will peace slip into those bare and lonely places to provide you peace as you walk through them!
Hold Fast,
-Bren
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