What Was Meant for Harm
What was meant for harm by the enemy
God meant it for good
The correlation between men’s evil intent and God’s sovereignty
Why doesn’t God intervene
In the face of evil
In times of injustice
In times of trouble and torment
Why does God seem to turn away from us
Why is He silent
In our times of most need
When
He is the Omnipotent God
Who can just speak things into existence
Speak and we would be healed
Speak and the mountain be removed before us
Speak and the valley be raised up
Speak and the crooked path becomes straight
But we don’t see Him take action
Neglected
Abandoned
We are left destitute
In the mock and mire of our troubles and struggles
He is the Omnipresent God
He was at the beginning
He will be at the very end of all things
He is present throughout all eternity
But we don’t sense His presence
We don’t hear His words of comfort or direction
When we are in most desperate need
Ignored
Rejected
Abandoned
He is the Omniscient God
Who knows the end from the beginning
Who knows our every thought before we think them
Who knows our every action
Our every decision
Our every feeling
Sees our every teardrop
But when we seek His wisdom and we don’t hear His voice
We seek His direction and He doesn’t speak
We ask for His wisdom and His will
We plead for wisdom and comfort
Crickets
Nothing
Zilch
Nada
Deafening silence
Why do You abandon us so
Why do You ignore us
Why do You turn a deaf ear to our cries
Those are our human perspective and experiences
While in Heaven
In the spiritual realm
God is working out all things
according to His good and perfect purpose
According to His timing
He has not abandoned us
A thousand days is like one day to God
Our sufferings are momentary from the perspective of eternity
Sometimes God allows us to stay in our suffering
Like the silversmith who heats up the caldron
So he could remove the crud that comes up to the surface
God allows our suffering
To surface our impurities
All the things that do not fully reflect God and His Kingdom
His Righteousness
His Peace
His Joy
Sometimes we have NOT done anything wrong
Sometimes it is not a generational stronghold or sin
Like the man born blind whom Jesus healed
Sometimes it is so God can be glorified
Like Joseph
Who was betrayed by his brothers and sold into slavery
Wrongly accused by Potiphar’s wife when he was acting righteously
Forgotten by the Chef Wine Bearer whom he interpreted the dream for
Like Christ
Who was born a helpless babe
Lived and taught and performed miracles
To demonstrate God’s Kingdom
Who was betrayed by His inner circle
Rejected by the very ones He came to save
Nailed on the cross
Suffered excruciating death on the cross
Satan thought he had won
Satan danced at the sight of Christ’s death on the cross
Satan thought he had put to death humanity’s only hope of salvation
Yet God was at work
All along
Joseph had to be betrayed
Suffer for injustices as he lived righteously
Christ had to be betrayed
To be crucified for us on the cross
For what Joseph’s brothers
For what Satan
Meant for harm
GOD MEANT THEM FOR GOOD
For the saving of lives
For the salvation of all mankind
He is The Sovereign God
Whose timing is different from ours
God’s powers are not too weak to accomplish His Will
God was present even when all we felt was His absence
God knows what we are going through every moment of our life
In the perspective of eternity
God is working all things out
For GOOD
For His PURPOSE
For those whom He LOVES
Who can separate us from the love of Christ
Shall trouble from within or without
or hardships of life
or persecution from others or from within
or famine or scarcity
No in all these things
We are more than conquerors through Him Who loves us
For the Spirit helps us
We do not know what we ought to pray for
But the Spirit Himself
Intercedes for us
With wordless groans
For He Who intervenes in our lives
Knows the Will of God
And intercedes for us
According to His Will
Who can separate us from the love of God
Shall our circumstances
Shall persecutions
Shall turmoil from within
Shall trouble from others
Shall our powerlessness over life
Shall the deafening silence
Shall our destitute life circumstances
Separate us from the love of God
Who is All Powerful
Who is ever-present
Who knows all things
For I am convinced that
Neither life nor death
Neither angels nor demons
Neither present nor future
Nor any powers
Neither height nor depth
Nor anything else in all creation
Will be able to separate us from the love of God
