The best in you
Job 5:
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
The Lord inflicts pain, but he also heals. He breaks hearts and puts them together again. He wounds and hurts but the same hand makes you whole.
(Though he never neglects us) He allows us to experience neglect from others and disappointments, but in the end and through it all his arms are there to comfort.
Why?
In feelings of disappointment we asked “why?” but that’s because we misunderstood. God didn’t allow you to get hurt necessarily because he was angry with you, or because he wanted you to cry, but because he wants to bring out the BEST in you...
How?
We thought we were invincible, especially in our youth. We roamed like gods until it happened to us. Until we got dumped, until we went through divorce, until we got sick, until our family kicked us out... You never knew that you could hurt so badly. You never knew that you could cry so hard, no, not until you experienced it for yourself.
Through our pains we learn to trust in God more than ever, because we realize how frail we really are and how mighty God truly is. Your pains bring the humility that will cause God to exalt you (Jam 4:6). God wants you exalt you. He wants to glorify you, but first he has to create the humility in you that comes with your hard times. You see, you have to go through the valley before you can reach the mountaintop... So don’t give up, it’s not for you to commit (spiritual or physical) suicide though some people have chosen that route. God didn’t design your situation to kill you, but to bring out the greatest potential in you, a miracle he planted in the secret of your soul before you were born.
We have to go down before we can go up:
When we decide to Love God regardless of our struggles, he takes even the bad things in our lives and turns them around for our benefit. We might not be able to see how he can take some of the terrible pains in our lives and use them to benefit us at this moment, but this is why we call him God (Romans 8:28). We call him God because he’s able to take the things that seem impossible in our lives, and make a possibility out of them (Matthew 9:26). Some people are angry with God for the unfortunate things in their lives, but they are speaking in anger with the answers in their own mouth, and the answer is the same name that they’re angry with, ‘GOD’. And even if we can see exactly HOW God can do this with our problems, pains, struggles and disappointments, we have to at least realize that we have to go down before we can go up. We have to be crucified before we can be gloriously resurrected. We have to descend to what seems like hell in our lives (Psalms 18:5), before we can ascend to glory.
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