Romans 8:28; Job 23:10; Psalm 34:15–22; John 11:1–44; Revelation 1:9–19; Hebrews 13:5; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Romans 8:28”And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who have been called according to His purpose.”
The story is told of a lone survivor of a shipwreck who was thrown upon an uninhibited island.After awhile, he managed to built for himself, a crude hut in which he placed the “Little all”that he had saved from the sinking ship.
He prayed to God for deliverance and anxiously scanned the horizon each day to hail any ship that might be passing that way.
One day, upon returning from a hunt for food, he was horrified to find his hut in flames ! All that he had salvaged was now going up in smoke !
The worst had happened, so it appeared. But what at first seemed so great a tragedy was, in reality, for the best, though to the man’s limited vision it seemed a devastating loss.
In God‘s infinite wisdom, his loss was actually an answer to his most earnest prayer. The same day a ship arrived. “We saw your smoke signal, the captain said.
Can we not take our seeming calamities and look for God‘s best in them?
Even the calamity of death worked for the glory of God in the case of Lazarus .
And John the beloved was given his great vision of the future of the world and of heaven itself while in exile on the island of Patmos.
God knows where you are today. He knows what you are going through -Job 23:10. He will not forsake you, but He will faithfully keep you and bring you out, in His time.
Psalm 34:15-22. Do you know or do you just hope so?
“All things work”,God is working, do not disturb Him, otherwise you will delay His work.
Just love Him ,wait and trust Him ! He is never late and whatever He does is perfect and is eternal.