Friday
Several stories throughout the bible help to illustrate this question. Take for example, Joseph and his brothers. (Gen 37). They committed such an act of evil as to sell their own brother into slavery. But what did Joseph tell his brothers? “Don’t be upset and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.” God is able to take the evil and turn it into something good. Every time there is persecution, there is revival. Every time we find ourselves as Christians backed up to the wall, Christianity spreads. The persecution of the Christians in the first century caused them to move out away from Jerusalem and in the process, witness to a larger audience.
We truly do live in a fallen world, but our assurance is that God is still in control and even when events that happen in this world seem to overwhelm us, and evil seems to overpower us, we can rejoice in knowing Jesus, and knowing that there is nothing to big or too powerful that God can’t take care of for us.
Praising the wisdom and assurance of God
Pastor Kathy