Bad Things Happen To Good People

Romans 8:28 & 29
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.
 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.


Okay.  So let's get this straight:  Many Christ Followers call this "Holy Week."  And as I think about it, this week called "Holy"  had a whole lot of bad things happening rapidly.  And they happened to the best man who ever lived... They happened to Jesus.  It's hard to imagine anyone having a more horrible, terrible, very bad and or no good week...seriously. 

Yet he suffered through it all, and in the end, a HUGE miracle occurred... Jesus conquered Hell, Death and the grave!!!  And the great blessings of all time came, not out of good things happening to good people, but they came out of bad things happening to good people.

So I was just thinking.  I said to my self, "Self why is it that many of us  contemporary folks think that God's allowed suffering is a bad purposeless thing?"  Then I get the pain and all not feeling so good. But does pain mean that the bad stuff is meaningless?

Nope!  Nothing is further from the truth: Take for example the ancient wisdom (see above) from Romans 8:28-29.  Many like to quote verse 28.  Yet they stop there, and its almost as if verse 29 was never plastered on the pages of the ancient script. Yes God does work in ALL things for the good of those who love Him and are called according to HIS purpose.  That is true.

However and yet, Verse 29 tells why God works in all the "stuff" for our good.  God tells us what God is actually trying to accomplish with the pain (He has allowed) that will bring us gain.  Check out the verse, and you will see that He is simply forming you and me into the image of Jesus so we can be more like Him, as his little sisters and brothers.

Laura Story sings about this in some video's above.  I do hope you have time to put on some head phones and crank up the volume. 


Now go on out an be blessed 2day
Especially 2day
Sojourner





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stepping Stones For Victorious Christ Centered Living #20 Shake A Little Salt

Image
  The Challenge of Having An Unsavory Life. We live in a world where a whole lot of people are suffering:  Many struggle spiritually. Others,  because of their spiritual issue, have emotional struggles. Still others have relationships that are strained. Financial issues also may be added into the mix; additionally, physical challenges,  or health challenges, are a part of this. Mix a little high pace, and rarely slowing down in life, and you can see something is really going on impacting life in a negative way. In other words  all of these, plus any number of other things experienced in the 21st century, contribute to people experiencing unsavory lives. Jesus Speaking to You and M e Jesus has something to say about this. And He wants each of us to help out by, first beginning to embrace our identity. He wants us "become" so we match our identity, and if we don't, we really miss out and mess up.  Check out what He says, as He expressly tells us who we are. A...
Read more

Looking Back To Have A Future: Overcoming Storms

Image
Stepping Stones For Victorious Christ Centered Living #1 Therefore, anyone who hears the words of mine-- and puts them into practice -- is like a wise man who built his house on a rock: The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew, and beat against the house; yet, it did not fall, because it had its foundation on THE ROCK! BUT Everyone who hears these words of mine, and does NOT put them into practice, is like a foolish man who built his house on sand: The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew, and beat against the house. And IT FELL WITH A GREAT CRASH! Jesus (Matthew 7:24-27 S T O R M S Storms seem to come into everyone's life. Some experience more, and others experience less; however, the winds of adversity do, indeed, come. Some even howl like a Category-5  hurricane that beats relentlessly on the shores of people's lives. Dear Christ Follower, some of you know precisely what I am saying. And I am here to tell you Jesus provides us with Stepping Stones fo...
Read more

2024 Let God Help Make Your Life Beautiful

Image
Ready or Not Here It Comes Leap year is upon us. Yep! We get to have one extra day on the calendar of 2024. And as the new year opens up before our very eyes, whatever we bring into this year -- good, bad, happy or sad -- will be a part of the fabric of this new year. For some of us this will be challenging. Why? Because some are really struggling with what is going on in our culture. Many are having to grapple with spiritual, emotional, relational, financial and/or physical struggles. And just because people are saying "HAPPY NEW YEAR" these challenges are still very real. So, how are we to get ready for this if the new year, in focus, appears anything but happy? But Remember -- God I have learned that when life meets us head on, it is important to think of all these challenges, but remember God:  As Christ Followers, you and I are not in this journey alone, and as the ancient wisdom of Ecclesiastes 3:11a teaches, "God makes ALL things beautiful in it's time." ...
Read more