i’ve been thinking a lot lately about what has happened in our lives and is about to happen……………..contemplating why why why………..why some get what seems to be unsurmountable things put down in front of them? does He give some of us things in our life because He knows we will carry out His will and then spare the weaker ones? that is a question i had, had raised with a friend and i wonder……………….just wonder
then i read this the other day in “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers,
a book i highly recommend to everyone, the best devotional book ever! IMHO:) i’m just taking portions of one days devotion that i had highlighted in my copy….
God’s purpose is never man’s purpose.
The things that happen do not happen by chance, they happen entirely in the decree of God. God is working out his purposes.
If we are in communion with God and recognize that He is taking us into His purposes, we shall no longer try to find out what His purposes are. As we go on in the Christian life it gets simpler, because we are less inclined to say–Now why did God allow this and that? Behind the whole thing lies the compelling of God. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends.” A Christian is one who trusts the wits and the wisdom of God, and not his own wits. If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the leisureliness which ought to characterize the children of God.
“Dear Father, I trust You. I believe that You are in control of my life and that You allowed this circumstance to enter my life. I trust that You have a good result planned. Teach me to lean less on my own understanding and more on You. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
(((hugs)))
It is so hard to know why sometimes. One of my favorite thoughts {for which I know I won’t do justice} from the book “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss” is that we experience great joy and great pain in this world. With every positive in this life, there is a negative on the other end of the spectrum. Joy/grief, pleasure/pain, the list goes on and on. To experience all of the joy that we do, there will be the possibility of the negative {the grief/pain}. And unfortunately, we will all have to face some sort of loss at one time or another. Like I said, I wish I could do it justice. It is such a great book. I would recommend it to anyone. Prayers and hugs to all of you.