because GOD is in control my plans have a limit and my problems have a purpose. now if that is true, and it is, then how should i respond to my problems knowing that every problem has a purpose behind it and that GOD hasn't caused it but has permitted it for a reason?
let's look at an example: job. job was the wealthiest man in the world and he lost it all overnight. he went bankrupt and all of his family was killed except his nagging wife. then he got a dreaded disease and he's miserable. even satan couldn't get at job without GOD's permission. satan had to come to GOD and say, “can i do this to job” and GOD said, “you can do this and no more.”
satan cannot even get at your life without GOD's permission. there are not two GOD's of equal authority. satan is a creature like anything else. there is only one GOD and even satan has to do what GOD says. HE only allows him here for a short period of time to produce a race of tested individuals and then he will be destroyed. if you lost everything the way job did, how would you respond?
job 1.21 (lb), the LORD gave me everything i had, and they were HIS to take away [please note: they were HIS to take away]. blessed be the name of the LORD. job says, everything i have comes from GOD anyway. HE gave it to me, HE can take it all away. it is HIS right.
now the end of the story is that GOD later restored everything the devil had taken away, twice as much. job was twice as wealthy, twice as many kids.
GOD is in control. if he wants to turn off a faucet HE can turn it on elsewhere. you lose a job. big deal! GOD can give you another one. bankrupt? big deal! GOD can turn it around because HE is in control. you say “blessed be the name of the LORD. HE is in control.” HE is a good GOD and knows what HE's doing.
just a thought from the front porch…
2 comments:
Hello Bill. What a great message (tears). My husband and I are in our sixties. A similar situation happened to us 10 yrs ago, and we were forced to retire in our early fifties.
I was a trained Sunday school teacher, Bible study teacher, prayer warrior, etc. God had been good to me for three decades, then, without warning, the bottom fell out in "every" area of our lives.
Toward the end, I had reached the place of Job. I felt as though I was living in a dry, barren land and life was no longer worth living. As a lover of God, I never questioned Him, only lived the days moment by moment, trusting Him.
We experienced the worst of situations, "job 1.21 (lb), the LORD gave me everything i had, and they were HIS to take away [please note: they were HIS to take away]. blessed be the name of the LORD. job says, everything i have comes from GOD anyway. HE gave it to me, HE can take it all away. it is HIS right."
Life is quite different in to many ways to tell in this short response, other than two say that we were given back more than I ever could have expected. Our lives have changed for the better, and we're blessed.
Sometimes we have to experience losses in our lives and reach a particular place of understanding before He can do His work with us.
Our lives, although much, much, different, have been blessed after ten yrs of trauma. We lost everything, but gained so much more - inexplainable.
Thank you for jotting the scripture - it is a pearl.
Have a nice evening.
thanks you so much, bonnie for sharing your experience. GOD can be trusted but we don't really realize how much HE can be trusted. you know because of what you have gone through. again, thank you for sharing. your life is a living example.
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