Today's musings found in Streams in the Desert focus on Romans 8:28, the verse that reminds me once again that "....all things work together for good to them that love God."
In all honesty, I have not always been able to take that promise at face value. When life is in the pits I struggle to see how the promise can be true at all times, but when I realize for the umpteenth time that I am the one bound by time while God isn't, it is then that I am able to focus on the big picture and I'm forced out of the mindset that keeps me in the moment of those less than desirable times in life.
Macduff, the author of this morning's musings, focuses separately on each part of that promise found in Romans, but it is his observation on the "work together" part that has caught my attention. "It is a beautiful blending. Many different colors, in themselves raw and unsightly, are required in order to weave the harmonious pattern. Many separate tones and notes of music, even discords and dissonances, are required to make up the harmonious anthem."-Macduff (Streams in the Desert-Classic Edition).
George Mueller sums it up perfectly when he says: "In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for the believer's good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine, and one beside."
Well said.
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