I don't believe God every plans for us to have one bad day...but I believe He gets the credit for most of our bad days. If you look in scripture and especially Jeremiah the Lord says he plans for our welfare and NOT our evil, He wants to give us a hope and a future....
So why is it that God gets the credit so many times for our hardship...for death, destruction, and "Acts of God" upon the the earth. I mean lets face it the earth is Satan's playground, we also know that Satan has come to kill and destroy but that the Lord has come for us to have life and not only that but for us to have life ABUNDANTLY. Why is it that Christians and the church so easily attribute what scripture blatantly tells us is Satan's nature yet ascribes that very thing as the nature of God?
10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
God loves us and He planned for our victory long before our journey on this Earth began just by sending His son Jesus, then on top of it He empowered each of us with the Holy Spirit, gifting us with the power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead and seated Him at the right hand of the Father...now I don't know if that excites you or if it just goes over your head or if it makes you go...how do I tap into that power....I want to know how to grab ahold of that because I believe he gave us that power to utilize....
1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 1:19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, according to the working of his great might 1:20 which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
I don't want to be like the servant who buried something in the ground...I want to use what He gives me...
So this is my quest....because I BELIEVE He has a plan for all of us...and it is something more than good...and we can count on our futures to be bright...and we can always always stay hopeful!
29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
I believe you're absoulutely right! The earth is the devil's playground and all too often God gets the blame...This is very well put...one of the best! Thanks for posting!! Many blessings!!
Michael...I just had to make this the title of this blog...When Hunter was little he use to always say..."I'm having a bad day!" I use to think...how can a 4 year old have a bad day?!!! He was such a cutie and sooo funny! I just know as his mommy I NEVER wanted him to feel like that...I know God wants even better gifts for us!
And that last comment...well, I just treasure that! Just sayin!
My BOY is something totally different! I am so thankful for him...he already has a powerful testimony...he was a premature baby with a lot of health problems...today, though the scars remain...he is perfectly healthy and thriving...and totally open to God...I find myself learning so much from him...
Wow Ms Sugar we have similar boys...mine had a stroke before he was born. His right side is notibly smaller BUT just as strong as his left and he is not really affected, he has a few little quirks but nothing that does not keep him from living a normal life. Hunter teaches and has always taught me so much...and that boy/man loves God!
I honestly believe that it is each ones responsibility to really seek out what is in the Word of God and to try and fully understand. It is truly sad to me that church's and people spread dogma rather than what is in the Word of God. I have heard from some wise men before say...people don't often let the Word get in the way of what they believe, challenging words but true. When this happens Satan wins...and continues to hold us captive to the law, lies, sickness and anything that keeps us bound...
So many times this verse is used as a cop-out. When we do not understand the true nature of God, nor do we understand His will, which is not hidden by the way, or when we fail to operate on the measure of faith He has planted in us, or we fall short of taking dominion over this earthly realm as He commanded us to do, we typically fall back on this verse and say, "Well, you never know what God's going to do" He makes all things work together for good"
That's just not right. When someone dies in a car accident, or gets raped, or murdered, or tormented in any other way, that didn't happen because God is working something out in their life. He is not the author of torment, yet He often gets the credit. Unreal. We live in a fallen world and Satan is going to take advantage of every opportunity he can.
Not everybody loves God and are called according to His purpose. Those are like pre-requisites for this verse. And not only that, notice how this starts with the word "and". It's a conjunction which means it is linked to the previous verses. Let's see.
8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for uswith groanings which cannot be uttered. 8:27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
Basically what I see from this is that God will make everything work out for the good, if we are seeking Him and praying and allowing the Holy Spirit to intercede on our behalf. In other words, it is when we are putting forth effort by praying and seeking and walking according to the Spirit and we love God and we are called according to His purpose. If all that is taking place, then He makes all things work out for the good!
I seem to rambling now, but the truth is that all things do not work out for the good for just everybody. This verse isn't our scapegoat, Jesus is!
Lastly, while I am in this passage, look at verse 18:
8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
That is AWSOME Michael...and just what I am talking about...see it is up to each of us to search out scripture and see what it says...you know what it reminds me of this story....
My sister was about 5 months pregnant and one night a bloodbath ensued and she lost that pregnancy. Her husband called Christian her oldest 19 year old boy and they asked him at 3:00AM to come and watch their 2 and 4 year old boys as they slept while they took her to to the hospital. She had multiple units of blood given to her during surgery that morning. She arrived home around 12:30 in the afternoon.
Christian had left at 12:15 because he wanted to go see his girlfriend Sara, he had not seen her much lately...he had brought his laundry to my sisters house as he had to work at 3:00 in the afternoon....My sisters mother-in-law had come to stay with the little boys as well and to help with the carpet cleaning and matress removal...About 1:30 or so my sister had gotten word that Christian had been shot and killed...
At his funeral a woman came up to my sister and said that God doesn't give any of us more than what we can handle....I was standing next to my sister...My face went red as my sisters went white, I'm telling you I did fine until that moment. I knew that woman meant well, but how dare she...I mean really...That was a day, no mother should ever have to live through, to loose two children in two separate incidents like that, in one day? Are you kidding me? And to incinuate that God did it! REALLY!?? My sister does not share my faith...she aspouts to abuot every new age doctrine that comes around...at this moment I was so scared she would never come around to Jesus if those words grabbed onto her heart...I was SURE Satan and his crew were there laughing...So I spun my sister around I faced her...I grabbed her face...I looked in her eyes....and I said this to her....Right in front of that woman....CHERYL....THAT IS NOT TRUE....Jesus died on the cross for days just like this...life sometimes is too hard to bear...and His heart absolutly breaks for you...He counts your tears baby...God did not ordain this...SATAN stole your children's lives off of this earth...God did not...but God the Father, He holds their spirits for you in Heaven in safe keeping...and if you want to see them again and spend eternity with them your going to have to get saved...
I swear to you those were God inspired words...I then looked at that woman and said I know you meant well but you should never say something like that to a mother at a funeral of her child. My sister let 2 tears slip down her cheek...people that heard it littlerally had their mouths open...and I hugged my sister and walked away....I mean you know what the words I spoke they were truth....
Sometimes the truth even if spoken in the hardes of situations WILL set you free...and that is about the hardest of situations and the most painful I know of...My heart was breaking at that moment like it never had before, I loved that boy like my own child and that is the truth...but I could not let some false doctrine "fall" onto my sisters heart at that moment....it was a time truth had to be stood up for...it is time we rip these things out and root them out so the body of Christ stops getting so lead astray....
I am so glad God spoke through you that day to tell your sister the truth. You say so very much in this comment I honestly feel like I could write an entire blog just based upon what you've replied. But one thing I do want to share is a verse that just jumped out from my spirit as I read this.
This is a very familiar verse. It is often misquoted but in it's entirety, it goes along with exactly what you are saying here:
54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; andevery tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
We often say, "no weapon formed against me shall prosper" but we fail to remember the fact that we also have a responsibility in this promise. And that is to condemn any tongue that rises up against what we know to be truth.
I like it in the NLT version too:
But in that coming day no weapon turned against you will succeed. You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord; their vindication will come from me. I, the Lord, have spoken!
That is ssoooo good Michael! I LOVE that...cause how does our vindication come from the Lord? Sometimes just by knowing Him and His Word and by speaking that out.
I felt really bad in that moment in time...I felt bad for that lady, I felt bad for my sister, and I felt bad that we were all in that situation. So many times when we don't know what to say we just repeat what we have heard, but those things are just so wrong so many of the times....
BUT there comes a time and this was one of them where you have to make the public decision to stand up for the Lords integrity, I would rather He look good than me, that woman, or anyone else. It is time we squash false doctrines and show the Lord for who He truly is....This was a crucial time my sister's life, and probably others around her, where she needed to really see the Lords heart in this matter and needed to hear the truth...I wasn't going to keep my mouth shut....
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