all things work together for good...

GOD never makes a mistake. HE even takes the mistakes you make and weaves them into HIS plan for HIS purpose. nothing comes into my life by accident. GOD never makes a mistake. everything fits into HIS plan.

romans 8.28 (niv), and we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to his purpose. no wonder CHRISTians can be positive. that verse would make an optimist out of anybody. all things work together for good for those who love GOD! what a tremendous concept.

fact: GOD has a purpose behind my problems. that helps me to be positive. HE has a purpose behind every problem that i face.

notice what it does not say. it does not say that all things are good. there's a lot of bad in the world. it does say that all things work out the way i want them to. it does not say that everything will have a happy ending on this side of eternity.

it says, and we know. we don't hope, we don't wish, we don't desire, we don't think, we don't imagine. we have absolute confidence. we know!

what do we know? we know that all things work together for good for those who love GOD. all things. what does all things include? does that include losing your job? does that include an illness? does that include a divorce? does that include a miscarriage? all things work together!

and notice it doesn't say, all things by themselves are good. it says they work together, they're inter-related. individually there are many bad things that come into our lives. but they work together. they're inter-related. we must look at the whole picture.

like the illustration of the needlepoint. if you look on the back side of the needlepoint it's a jumble of garbled twine and string. you turn it over and you see the grand design. it's the perspective that you're looking at it that makes the difference. all things work together for good. that makes it a life without miscalculation. GOD never makes a mistake. and HE even takes the mistakes in my life and turns them around.

just a thought from the front porch…