This comes from the story of Joseph, who was sold to the Egyptians to become a slave by jealous brothers. Joseph was accused and punished for crimes he did not commit and his brothers did treacherous and ungodly things to him. Many people along the way hated Joseph and he was mocked, lied about, tortured, ruined and despised by many. Joseph had it rough and everything that could go wrong went wrong. The people that hated him didn't have a cause.
Here's the question that so many people ask. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" I have had to deal with this in my life and offer consolation to others that have asked this question. But over the years I have learned that this is not a question that should be asked by us about God. The question shouldn't be "Why do bad things happen to good people." The question should be, "what are you going to do with what God allowed to happen?"
What happened happened. I know the pain of awful things coming my way and maybe you do to. Your pain might be that your loved ones haven't come to Jesus or maybe you are real sick. Maybe you have lost all hope and you think that God wouldn't heal you if He could, because you don't feel that you properly reconciled yourself for past sins or whatever. Maybe a friend betrayed you or fellow workers lied about you to get rid of you. Maybe people believe a lie about you because someone said something hurtful. The point is, God is going to be God without your consent. What are you going to do with what God allowed to happen?
Rather than give you all the things you could say or do that don't work, let's get to the quick. God is God and will be God with or without your recognition, but you have the right as a believer to interact with God, to bring to pass a desired outcome. You were designed to co-create with God. It's true, what you think and what you have faith to believe for plays an interactive role in what God allows to happen.
If you want to wallow in the mire of disillusionment and despair, blaming God for all the things that have gone wrong, go ahead. But you can, if you want to, decide that you aren't going to allow what happened in your life to rob you even further of what lies ahead.
- Get with God on this.
- Try to trust Him with your tomorrows.
- Make an attempt to seek the mind of God and offer your suggestions to God.
- Try to believe that God wants to co-create the future with you, using what you have along with your faith to create something even more wonderful than you ever dreamed.
- Try to understand that what God allowed to happen is in His hands.
- Try to trust that God has a greater interest in those in whom you love and yourself than you do.
Note: So many people have a false understanding/impression of how God interacts in our lives. Rest assured that God does not rely on your foolish notions to determine what God does on your behalf. For those people that believe that only if you are perfectly in God's will can you receive anything from God have been mislead and religion is not advanced when people believe erroneous things about God. No one is perfect and no one has all the right answers. Those who say they do are foolish and unlearned in the things of God.
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