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Saturday... We don't always really understand.


Saturday... We don't always really understand.

There are times in our life that things happen and we hurt, we hurt because we don't always see the potential good in it. We only see the pain, the bad, but as we live through it and look back on it and see where God had a different plan that we did not understand but we then see that it was good, very good.

There is an occurrence over in Matthew 17:22-23 (NLT). Jesus was with his twelve disciples, It says, "After they gathered again in Galilee, Jesus told them, 'The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.' And the disciples were filled with grief." And I'm sure that we would too if we had spent three years of our lives following this man and listening to everything he said and watching everything he did. No way was his being killed good news but that wasn't the end of what he said. 

I remember the time that Margaret, my wife came home and told me that she had a new boss and it was not a good thing. It was a very difficult time for Margaret This boss was not good news but it wasn't the end of the story. Margaret needed a bad boss in order for her to start looking for another job. And she found the job that she is in now that has made such a difference in our life. There was good in the bad.

The bad news we hear sometimes is good news when God is a part of our life. And maybe what you are going through in your life right now has a good side to it. That is so many times the way God works.

Sometimes we feel like David in Psalm 13:1 where he says, "O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?" He then says in verse 3, "Turn and answer me, O Lord my God. Restore the sparkle to my eyes or I will die." And that is definitely sometimes the prayer that we want to pray.

But he goes on in verses 5-6, "But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me." Even in what we see as bad, there is good. That's how God works.

The disciples didn't really understand what Jesus said. They were basing their grief on what they did understand. He said that he was going to be killed and in no way was there good in that. They just didn't understand what 'on the third day he will be raised from the dead' really meant. That was the reason why he had come to earth, That was the purpose of his living and his dieing. And that was going to change the world and change them.  

Here is the key, "But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me." And he is the same God that these disciples served and he really loved them and he really loves us and he knows what he is doing. And I will trust in his unfailing love. 

Yes, we don't always really understand but we can really trust in his unfailing love and that he is good to us even in what we are going through right now. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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