To: boatbums
I don't believe God wastes our pain - no matter how serious or minor. He is refining and growing our faith through it all so that we may understand that even when something doesn't work out the way we think or want it to, we STILL trust Him to work all things for our good - no matter what. He is SO good! One day while I was praying about this health issue I've been dealing with, I was thinking and said to God that this all seemed so pointless.
I was very rebuked when He spoke to me and said *Nothing I do is pointless*.
And I still need to remind myself of that.
131 posted on
11/07/2014 2:04:19 AM PST by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: metmom
I've come to believe that, until we get to the point - as Job did - where we can honestly say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.", we will never reach the full potential of our faith. It may be until we get to heaven before we fully understand God's purpose and will behind the suffering He has permitted into our lives, but we WILL one day and I am willing to wait. It's either trust Him because He is God and He loves us or reject that there even IS a God - and I've already seen too much for that to ever be the case.
I continue to remember you in my prayers.
146 posted on
11/07/2014 2:14:58 PM PST by
boatbums
(God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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