A thought by Rick Warren,
(2012-10-23) from his book, The Purpose
Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (p. 248). Zondervan. Kindle
Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
The Bible says in Psalm 34: 18 (NLT), “The Lord is
close to the brokenhearted; He rescues those who are crushed in spirit.” Are you hurting today? God is close to the broken hearted
And we all have them and God wants to use them.
The Bible says in Psalm 34: 18 (NLT), “The Lord is
close to the brokenhearted; He rescues those who are crushed in spirit.” Are you hurting today? God is close to the broken hearted
Rick says, “Your most profound and intimate
experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days — when your heart is
broken, when you feel abandoned, when you’re out of options, when the pain is
great — and you turn to God alone. It is during suffering that we learn to pray
our most authentic, heartfelt, honest-to-God prayers. When we’re in pain, we
don’t have the energy for superficial prayers.”
The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1: 9 (LB),
“We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help
ourselves; but that was good, for
then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us.”
But that was good.
Have you gotten to the point in your spiritual maturity that you can say
that in your problems, “But that was good”?
The Apostle Paul had a real handle on the negative circumstances of
life. He wrote one book in the Bible all
about joy and he was in prison.
Please understand this, Rick says, “Regardless of
the cause, none of your problems could happen without God’s permission.
Everything that happens to a child of God is Father-filtered, and He intends to
use it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad.”
So have you gotten to the point that you can say, “But
that was good” even when it was bad?
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