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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