Have you ever heard a tragedy and could relate to what that
person was going through? A spouse died, you lost a job, you had a painful
divorce, maybe it’s something you experienced 20 years ago, maybe it was 20
minutes ago, no matter what you could relate and because of this you are able
to help this person…. Bam…You just found purpose in that pain you experienced.
Why is it when our car is not running right, we are quick to
bring it to the mechanics, leave it there and wait for the call that it is
fixed and ready to be picked up; yet when we have a burden in our lives and
things are not running right we aren’t as fast to bring it to God and leave it
there for Him to fix? We trust our car problems with the mechanic but not our
life problems to God? If we don’t leave
our car, how can the mechanic fix it? If we don’t leave our problems with God,
how can He fix it? We can’t just tell them the problem; we have to leave it to
fix it!
The question, “Why does God allow Bad things to happen to Good
people?” is one you hear or ask often when we hear of a travesty in someone’s
life. I view them as “Wow, what is God going to do with that?” and sometimes an
added…”Well this shall be interesting”.
God does not “allow” anything other then the opportunity to turn
what is bad into something good.
When we turn things over to Christ, His promise of protecting
His children can be kept; His wrath is far greater then our pain..avenges is His! When we stop looking at the pain, or what
caused the pain and start looking for the purpose God can turn it into, we
start to heal. Everyone has a story, but
it’s what we allow God to do with it that makes us different. Allow Him to turn
that pain into a purpose and learn to live for the that purpose~ Carlene Altom 8-24-12
