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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Flying with goodwill, part 3

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God is at work in your life making you like Jesus Christ. He has predestined you to that end. He is at work in your life making that happen. Therefore, anything that makes you more like Jesus Christ is good. Anything that pulls you away from Jesus Christ is bad. When Paul says that all things work together for good, he is not saying that the tragedies and heartaches of life will always produce a better set of circumstances. Sometimes, they do, sometimes they don't. But God is not committed to making you happy and successful. He is committed to making you like his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And whatever it takes to make you more like Jesus is good.  So, it is the providence of God that we learn more in the darkness than we do in the light. We gain more from sickness that we do from health. We pray more when we are scared than when we are confident. And everything that happens to you, the tragedies, the unexplained circumstances, even the wrong choices we sometime make-all of it is girst for the mill for God's loving purpose.
 

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