Sometimes it may seem that things are going nowhere but downhill but we are reassured in the Bible that God has all things working for the good of those who love Him. I have a planner with a quote that says "God will meet all our needs...but that doesn't mean all at the same time." Sometimes we need to be patient and endure suffering for a short time so that we can grow. People have told me that God never wants His people to suffer, but in Isaiah when it talks about how Jesus will come and be crucified it says that "it was the Lord's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer" Isaiah 53:10. God's idea is not to annoy us and cause unnecessary suffering but to mold us into what He wants us to be: we have faults and sometimes the only way to fix them is to totally reshape us into something new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says "therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come". What we often forget is that we are not only made new but the old is taken away..not all at once but God works away at us to get rid of our sin and make us pleasing to Him. It may hurt for awhile but it is worth the pain...surrender to Christ, trust in the Lord, and He will make you new and better than you ever were before!
♫ At the cross you beckon me you draw me gently to my knees and I am sweetly broken, lost for words; so lost in love, I'm sweetly broken..wholly surrendered ♫
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