God is in control of All Things Part 2

Does God design suffering for His children? I ask you to seek His Face and His Word on this question. Would suffering be God’s design? Does God oversee and manage the affairs of the world so that we can speak of suffering as His will and his design, or does He, rather, manage the world like a chess player who does not will the moves of his opponent, but can always check them and turn them for good? Does God plan the place of suffering in the lives of His children for good ends, or is He always in the position of a responder to the pain that other forces give him to work with? God governs the world and all that happens in it with purpose and design for the good of those who love him. This was the final lesson Job learned from all his suffering. Even if we cannot understand it all. In Job, the text states, satan may play his wicked role in the drama and take Job’s children and strike him with boils from head to toe, but Job will not give satan the eminence of ultimate casualty. That belongs to God alone. When Job’s ten children were crushed to death, he fell upon the ground and worshiworshiped; Job’s response to this “shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?” Job 2:10 (From the book-“the Hidden Smile of God)

Genesis 50:20 you meant for evil but God meant it for good…

God is in control of all things. Scripture truly shows us this over and over and over. And when I "finally" realized that I finally found true peace. My husband told me the other day, I have finally seen peace come over you. He has given you peace. Yes He has.

When we get caught up in ourselves and take our eyes off Him we lose sight of His purpose in our lives. I don't want to miss out on all that He is doing through this trial. What a shame it would be! So as it says in Ephesians 11

2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

My prayer is that we take the focus off ourselves and put our focus on Him.

Tammy