He Works it Out for Our Good
Whatever thing you are worried about today, God saw it before you did. Whatever you are anxious about, He already knows the outcome. In the book of Romans, God says the most audacious thing: "I promise to work out everything for the good of those who love Me and are called according to My purpose."
What a broad and amazingly hard-to-keep statement! But this is the thing: YOU can be the proof of that statement. That promise is actually an invitation to every person who has ever lived or ever will live. God would say: let me prove through YOUR circumstances that I never lie!
You WANT to be the proof of God's promise. When the creator of all the universe, the Author of power and love, wants to be prove His goodness and ability to turn scary looking things to awesome demonstrations of His power, you really want to be the volunteer!
The conditions of the promise are these: love God and do your best to line up with His purposes...agree that what He says is true really is true. That's it! Isn't this what pleases any of us that are parents? When our kids agree with us about what is right?
If I take an honest look back at my life, God's promise is true. The things I have wasted the most time worrying about have never come to pass. I imagine the worst, while God already sees the best. My enemy's main goal is to distract me from what connects me to God's promise. It is the strategy that He has used since the Garden of Eden: lie about God's faithfulness, use human emotion and fear to lead them to a counterfeit promise.
Rather than waste time and energy on imagining the worst, I am going to ask God to help me focus on what guarantees the promise: love God and agree with Him that He tells the truth!
David said it another way, based on what he saw all around Him:
Psalm 37:23 The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. 24 Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand. 25 Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. 26 The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing.
What a broad and amazingly hard-to-keep statement! But this is the thing: YOU can be the proof of that statement. That promise is actually an invitation to every person who has ever lived or ever will live. God would say: let me prove through YOUR circumstances that I never lie!
You WANT to be the proof of God's promise. When the creator of all the universe, the Author of power and love, wants to be prove His goodness and ability to turn scary looking things to awesome demonstrations of His power, you really want to be the volunteer!
The conditions of the promise are these: love God and do your best to line up with His purposes...agree that what He says is true really is true. That's it! Isn't this what pleases any of us that are parents? When our kids agree with us about what is right?
If I take an honest look back at my life, God's promise is true. The things I have wasted the most time worrying about have never come to pass. I imagine the worst, while God already sees the best. My enemy's main goal is to distract me from what connects me to God's promise. It is the strategy that He has used since the Garden of Eden: lie about God's faithfulness, use human emotion and fear to lead them to a counterfeit promise.
Rather than waste time and energy on imagining the worst, I am going to ask God to help me focus on what guarantees the promise: love God and agree with Him that He tells the truth!
David said it another way, based on what he saw all around Him:
Psalm 37:23 The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. 24 Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand. 25 Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. 26 The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing.
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