November 17, 2010

Do you believe that God does all things well?   Let's take a closer look at that question…If you were born with a deformity or ailment….do you think that God does all things well?  If you lost a parent or were left orphaned…would God still do all things well? If rejection or abandonment from a spouse or friend brought you to a place of heartbreak, would you still consider that God doeth all things well?

F.B. Meyer wrote:  "Someone once said to me, 'If I always had to deal with God, I would not mind.  If it was disaster, shipwreck, fire, anything I could trace directly to God, I hope I would be Christian enough to bow to it.  But what worries me and makes me feverish and restless, is that things come to me from my fellow men.  I cannot say "yes" to those.'  Ah, my friend, but you must!  You will never get rest if you do not.  You must…make no distinction between what God has appointed and what God has permitted.  His permission and His appointments are equally His will!  Job thought so, for though Satan blasted his prosperity he said, 'The Lord hath taken away.'  Joseph thought so, for he said, 'It was not you that sent me here (to Egypt), but God!'  Jesus thought so, because when Judas came into the garden to betray Him, He said, 'The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?'  Though it had been brought to His lips by a Judas, it had been mixed by His Father!"

Really believing that our God doeth all things well…will bring us to better understand that "…all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."  Romans 8:28

By faith, I must come to accept what my God appoints and what He permits to come in my life.  If I do not….I will drown in the disappointments that are sure to come.

Psalm 18:30 "As for God, his way is perfect…"

Do you believe that?