Have you ever doubted that God is going to do what the Bible says He is going to do? Have you ever looked at situations where someone that is a good person – HURTS – and the bad wicked people PROSPER?
I have! Recently my sweet mother who is 71 years old fell breaking her finger really badly. .
She is so sweet and kind – always helping the needy. She is so merciful and gracious to those who have taken advantage of her. She is a godly woman who faithfully studies the Word of God. She is truly a beautiful wonderful lady.
When she fell, and I got this picture, I was initially angry with God. I wondered why God allows the good to suffer while the wicked sometime prospers in their sin. I wondered why God set it up this way. Have you ever wondered such things? Well, I then felt myself going off the “Trail” but I quickly was reminded of some things.
Number one!
God is not like me and His ways are definitely not like my ways. (Is. 45:7, 9 Romans 9) Shall I say that what the Lord does or allows is not ultimately good? (Romans 8:28) May it never be for if I believe that, then I also say that He is evil in His intent or not completely Holy. I believe that He is COMPLETELY good and kind and right – based on Scripture! (not always based on my own experience- for I am flawed and warped in my fleshly understanding)
Number Two!
2 Cor. 5:5
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Need I say more? This body will be broken – but God walks through these times of trouble – not preventing them – but strengthening us through them – ultimately drawing us into a deeper walk with Him and conforming us more to the image of His son. This was what my dear mother told me. WOW!
Number Three!
Ps. 119:105
Thy word is a lamb unto my feet and a light unto my path.
This morning as I was up before the dawn praying about this, I was walking on a paved path but it was very dark. As I was reading the Bible on my phone, I drifted off the path into a grassy area. It was a great analogy of what we all do when we go with what we “FEEL” rather that the light that God has provided. We find ourselves off of the path with most everyone else, doubting God and chasing some sins around thinking that that sin will ultimately fulfill our hearts.
Most people feel that if there is a God – that He is not fair. That if he is so good then why is there so much horror in the world. I am so grateful that I do not spend my life there – BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT OF GOD’S WORD IN MY HEART!
There is answers to these kind of questions but only for the people who know Christ as their Savior and that have the evidence of the Holy Spirit living within them. He is the Guarantee. He is our engagement ring of what is to come. He is the one who keeps us, for without Him we would all end up in doubt, seeking after some other foundations or false way of viewing the one who formed us.
Thank you Lord for the Spirit who guides us to all truth. Who keeps us – and for the word of God that makes the path clear and our peace secure.