God Knows What He is Doing To Us

Ye shall
know that I have not done without cause all that I have done, saith the Lord
God.

EZEKIEL 14:23

JOY is the
lesson set for some,

For others pain best teacher is;

We know not which for us shall come,

But both are Heaven's high ministries.

SUSAN COOLIDGE

THE outward features of our life may not be all
that we should choose them to be; there may be things we wish for that never
come to us; there may be much we wish away that we cannot part from. The
persons with whom we live, the circumstances by which we are surrounded, the
duties we have to perform, the burdens we have to bear, may not only be other
than what we should have selected for ourselves, but may even seem inconsistent
with that formation and discipline of character which we honestly wish to
promote. Knowing us better than we know ourselves, fully understanding how
greatly we are affected by the outward events and conditions of life, He has
ordered them with a view to our entire and final, not only our immediate, happiness;
and whenever we can be safely trusted with pastures that are green, and waters
that are still, in the way of earthly blessing, the Good Shepherd leads us
there.

ANTHONY W. THOROLD

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We may not always know what God is doing...but the we can have confidence that God does. We can't limit God to our own understanding. Although we can't look into the future and understand all that is happening now, that doesn't mean that God can't. But trusting in Him fully is not such an easy task....i know cause I've been there umpteenth times. Which is why monuments were so important to the people in the Old Testament days and to us today as well.

Many times, when God had done a good thing, the people of old used to build some kind of monument to remember it. The common practise was to pile up some rocks, pour some oil on it. Short of doing this in your backyard and be suspected of witchcraft, you can write it in a journal or type it into a blog, like i'm doing now. But the main idea is so that, in the future, we can revisit it and REMEMBER how good and how great our God is and how He delivered us from our own weaknesses and shortsightedness.

Be encouraged, He commands His angels concerning you...

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