” And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
I have heard this verse alot and in my mind I think yes – I love God and i know he is good because what he offers… I love him because he saved me from a pit of despair that I was in. He turned my life’s trajectory from straight to hell to heaven. Only through Gods son Jesus is that possible, to have a relationship with him. The closer I get to God the more I see his goodness. But sometimes I get stumped.
Every 98 seconds someone in america is sexually assaulted. Every 8 minutes the victim is a child.
How can this ever be worked for good?
Someone told me Its not God that makes theses horrendous things happen to people. Its the devil. That because Adam and Eve made the choice to invite sin into this world- Satan is at work. While that did comfort me for a little while, knowing it wasnt God going around hurtin people and saying oh it will make you stronger. I started to think about the sins that have been done to me. All I could think about was those people who stand in front of people and tell their stories and say they are glad that tragic thing happened because they have been able to help so many other people go through what she went through. That just makes me mad. I am not usually a selfish person but I dont want to hear that the pain I experienced was solely to help someone else. If thats the case were all just Gods puppet perpetuating the issues and solving them.. or at least going around and issuing bandaids if you share the same scar as someone else.
If God doesnt cause these things, yes it helps me respect him more but does that mean he lets it happen?
If God is pure love then he cant possibly be wishing ill on us.
“What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:11-13
If even people on earth deal with us kindly and in ways that are good how much more will our Heavenly Father. He will not hurt us and deceive us.
We chose sin. We have the consequences on our shoulders but God takes those burdens from us. We don’t have to bear them alone!
If we are adopted into God’s family then the devil cant take our soul he can try with all his might but we belong to the ONE TRUE KING.
I’ll end with this scripture and I pray it touches you and gives you hope just as it has for me.
“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;”
2 Corinthians 4:8,9
“So death is at work in us, but life in you. Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,”
2 Corinthians 4:12-17
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