You know exactly what I’m talking about because you’ve been
there, more often than you really care to admit to. Horror of horrors – to be in a place where we
DOUBT God! We doubt His love for us, we
doubt His provision for us, and we doubt He cares about us AT ALL because IF HE
DID…
This thing we’re going through now wouldn’t be happening or
that thing that’s occurring wouldn’t be
happening or this circumstance I find myself in would be different or that
circumstance would be different. You
know what I mean, we’ve all been there.
We have all asked the question “Why
God? Why?”
I’ve had some very “not nice” things that happened in my
life as I grew up. There was a very
long, very painful block of time when I was convinced I was unwanted and
unloved by my own mother. And I was mad
at God about it, let me tell you! Why
God? Why?
Do you know, in the Bible, the Word of God in the book of Romans
chapter 8 verse 28, it says “All things
work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His
purposes.” ALL THINGS. Does that mean, everything
that happens is supposed to BE GOOD? No,
I don’t think so, for I know from experience that that is not the way it
works! Not all the things that happen
are GOOD – but ALL the things that
happen, when we walk in agreement and obedience toward God Almighty, everything
that occurs is used by Him and turned in such a way that they work together to
bring about GOOD in our lives!
In this case, the very real emotional pain and turmoil I
experienced through that time in my life, was just recently used by God the
Father to minister some very real, very needed healing in the life of someone
else, who was experiencing that exact same sort of trauma. Had I not gone through what I went through, I
could not have reached this person with Gods truths. They wouldn’t have listened or received my
words as valid, in the way they did, if I had not actually gone through similar
circumstances to what they were experiencing.
I’d have been just another “Christian” trying to con them into thinking
Jesus was gonna make it all ok if they’d just go to church, or attend Bible
study or some such thing.
Instead, they knew, as I described my experience and then
shared HOW God delivered me from it and healed and restored my relationship
with my mother (for which I am VERY thankful) they KNEW, that there was very
real HOPE that they could be delivered, too.
God is no “respecter of persons.”
What He makes available is available to everyone, if they will
have faith to receive it.
HOPE – that’s one of the wonderful things that “empty” tomb
was FULL of the morning Jesus left the grave clothes lying in there and GOT UP
FROM THE DEAD! Be sure to “tune in”
Sunday for the next Tide Turning Tale on video!
Be blessed and encouraged in the Lord Brothers and Sisters,
for He loves us!
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