[metmom]

We are so misdirected though, that some things that happen to us appear to not be for our benefit.

Not everything that's good is good for us.

God doesn't give us what we want but what we need to become conformed to the image of Christ.

There is widespread resistance in Pentecostal circles to the idea that God can and does use illness and economic hardship as tools to shape our character. It can be a very destructive theology especially to a new believer who is struggling and being blamed for his problems.

[FourtySeven]

God doesn't give us what we want but what we need to become conformed to the image of Christ.

Exactly!