When adversity hits you like a ton of bricks, it could easily
throw you into a pit of discouragement and despair. Although you may consider
difficulties as setbacks, the Lord sees them as times for great advancement.
His purpose for allowing them is not to destroy you but to stimulate your
spiritual growth. In His great wisdom, the Lord knows how to take an awful
situation and use it to transform you into the image of Christ and equip you to
carry out His will.
Every adversity that comes into your life is sifted through
God's permissive will. That doesn't mean the difficulty itself is His perfect
will, but He's allowed the trial to touch you so that He can use it to
accomplish His wonderful purposes for your life. Although some of the suffering
we see and experience seems senseless or blatantly evil, we must recognize that
we have a very limited perspective and cannot always understand what the Lord
is doing.
Our heavenly Father sees every aspect of life, but our view is
restricted to what is right before us. His plans include not only you but all
of His creation, and they reach from the beginning of time to eternity future.
Though we'll never grasp the infinite mind of God, we can know His faithfulness
and love.
When you can't understand God's ways, focus on His perfect
knowledge, wisdom, and power rather than the magnitude of your sorrow.
Remember, He sees the entire picture and loves you more than you can imagine.
This is a time to walk by faith, as perfect understanding comes only in heaven.
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