We live in a world that likes to whine and cry every time a situation doesn’t go our way, every time our selfish fleshly desires aren’t met. We were programmed from youth to learn tactics to try to control situations to meet our own selfish needs; as a child, what else could we expect? A child thinks like a child, but when this same pattern carries over to adulthood we end up thinking this is the norm as so many others are doing the same thing, especially in the western world.
The scripture says; “All things work together for good to those that love the Lord…” Love conquers all, and covers a multitude of sin, (missing the mark), and we understand through scripture that tribulations are given to us for the building of us saints, so why are so many belly-aching because this worldly life dishes out its bitter pill? Strength, wisdom, patience, and hope comes from adversity. So in the long-run, we gain more from our enmities and that which we count as bad, than we do from those familiar faces that go along with the same rhetoric of looking out for number one.
At times the United States was the strongest nation on earth, simply because it had the most enemies, with those that were willing to fight us, thus making this nation look deeper for solutions. We as children of God, have sit on the side-lines crying about our bruises, wringing our hands, and not knowing what to do, when in truth, God has a plan for every situation, whether good or bad, to bring each of us to His next level of growth. It’s not us that’s in charge; it’s God, so why not look beyond the tribulation at hand and see the mysterious Hand of God working behind the scenes to create a Life of Faith within each for His purpose?
If we look at each character of people in scripture, we will see that all, not just a few, were sent overwhelming circumstances, but by faith over came them by the Hand of God moving greatly. Abraham, Moses, Joseph, and David, and the others, did not balk at the adversity at hand, but saw through it to another Land.
This crap that we’ve been taught, even by religious leaders, has malnourished a people to starvation, a people that thinks that all has to go well before victory can be had; but that is non-sense. We are His people, peculiar and His chosen generation, a royal priesthood, called out to overcome that which the flesh screams about. The things we read and learn in books, or even blog pages, can never compare to the learning that comes from trials and tribulations. Truly, God turns all situations into ‘good’ for those that Love Him.
