Hi there,
I've just listened to an extract from Beni Johnson's preach - She quotes something from James Goull's book -
To put the paragraph into context -he lost his wife to Cancer last year -a great loss for anyone.
But we all experience loss in one form or the other from one extreme to the next - each loss is a blow to our hearts. And we often don't understand the reasons why we have to endure the hardship. This is his quote:
"IN OUR TIMES OF PERSONAL LOSS THERE ARE A FEW BASIC THINGS THAT I WILL NEVER LET GO OF:
"GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME; AND ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD"
SOMETIMES MY LACK OF UNDERSTANDING SCREAMS AT ME
BUT IN THOSE VERY MOMENTS I MUST YIELD MY RIGHT TO UNDERSTAND AND PUSH THE BUTTON CALLED TRUST"
If my heart is anything to go by - I've had many moments where the confusion screams at me - but I guess there's alot we can learn from surrendering the weight of unanswered questions to all life's circumstances and to keep declaring God is Good all the time; and it's a freeing thing!
My circumstance or my inner turmoil, doesn't change God's Character or His good intent towards me -
To paraphrase Bertie Brits " Our bad circumstances sometimes force us to align with the devil's lies that God is not good - and the lies convince us that He has abandoned us";
with that comes a whole lot of "Why's" and if answers or solutions don't arrive in our timespan, we automatically distance ourselves from Him and put our walls around our hearts. Suddenly God's to blame for all the wrong in OUR world. How did the One who loves us beyond measure become our enemy?
Don't fall for the enemy's wicked schemes - keep standing in the reality of a "Good-Mood God" smiling over us.
He is for us ! If there are no answers, yield the right to understand.
Keep trusting - keep loving Him, and let His love convince your heart again.
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