The Scripture says in Romans
8:28, “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.”
I
was reading about Saul and his conversion
to the apostle Paul.
Everywhere Paul went, the
Bible shows us, he was tormented in some way or another. People protested against him, they threw him
in prison, he was bit by a snake, he was bound, he was tortured, he was
imprisoned, beaten, and the list goes on.
(Side note: Yet he continued in
his mission for the Lord… how many of us would have abandoned ship at the first
sign at any one of these?)
But we know that God changed
his name, because he before he became Paul, he was Saul. And the Bible says that Saul went around
breathing threatenings and cursings.
Saul went around tormenting people, in particular Christians. So some of the same things that were now
being to him as Paul, he already did to others.
Sounds a lot like sowing and
reaping. God’s Word is true. Whatsoever a man soweth, THAT he shall also
reap. And just like the Word said Paul
reaped what Saul sowed.
Yet God is good, in that
while the enemy meant it for Paul’s bad, God turned it around for his
good. All things work together for the
good. The enemy’s intentions were to
take Paul out. To steal, to kill and to destroy him. It did not work, because God said not so and
the Word says, “all things work together for the good for those who love the
Lord,…” It appears pretty obvious that
Paul loved the Lord, willing to do His will and most of all willing to die
doing it. (Can that be said of us?...
hmmm)
So while Paul went through ALL
these things he yet lived to be able to go and share the gospel so many other places,
because ALL things work together for the good… even the way he was. And even the way we were.
Whatever we've done in the past or whoever we used to be, that very thing God will turn around and make it work for the good... according to His purpose.
Yes, God is real. And so is His Word.
A servant of the Lord,
Sis. E
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