I want to take you to a very familiar verse today – Romans 8:28
The Bible says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Now this verse does not say that all things are good – rather it says that all things work together for good.
Whenever I read this verse, I immediately think about my Grandma’s biscuits. She made biscuits all the time – and they were amazing!
I remember watching as she always started preheating the oven, and then she put some crisco in the pan and put that in the oven to melt. Then she pulled out her White Lily self rising flour, and added more crisco, and some milk. She would work that together to form a dough, and then roll it out on the counter. Then she would cut out the biscuits and put them in that melted crisco. Finally, she flipped them over so the grease covered both sides and baked them in that hot oven.
Now when she pulled them out – you talk about something amazing! It didn’t matter if they had butter, gravy, jelly – or really anything on them – they were good.
What does this have to do with our text verse? Well – try eating a spoonful of crisco – or maybe go eat a cup of flour – and tell me how good they are. They are awful! Try putting your hand in that hot oven for 20 minutes and see how good that feels. It is terrible! But when you put them all together – it is all good!
In the same way – everything that you and I go through in life is not good, it is not amazing – but God can take those unpleasant circumstances and use them for good!
I think about Joseph. He didn’t enjoy being sold into slavery. He didn’t like living as a slave. He didn’t appreciate being lied on, and then living as a prisoner. Being forgotten didn’t make him feel on top. But what did he say to his brothers at the end of his life?
Genesis 50:20 “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
You see – God used those circumstances for good in his life – and in the lives of many other people too!
What are you going through? Is it bad? Well, just hang on – God will take those bad circumstances and use them to make Good happen in your life!
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