Do I ever get impatient, wondering when God is going to act? Am I ever so discouraged that I am ready to give up? What are some bad things happened to us? Can we think of a way God has used some of those things for good?
Some things in life "taste" bad to us or make us sad....very sad. Maybe we get hurt, or we lose someone or something we love or maybe we had a bad report from the doctor or maybe we are so hopeless or maybe we think that the weight of the world is on our shoulder. But even though these things may make us sad, God can use them along with other things in our lives, to make something good. God may choose to teach us a lesson through our sadness, He may use us one day to help someone else who is feeling sad, just like we did. Either way, God promises us that that even bad things happen,He can actually turn them into good things and use them for a reason in our lives.
God is an expert at bringing good out of bad.
God could have kept Jesus from the cross but He let Him go -- His own Son -- He let Him suffer and die. Did He bring any good out of that? Yes He did!
The things we wish were most removed from our life are often the very things that God is using to shape us and make us into the believer of character He wants us to be. He wants to use that problem for good in our life. There's something more important than our pain. It's what we're learning from that pain. GOD IS IN CONTROL!
So what's the key? What's our response? Our response is to look past the pain. "This is the reason we never lose heart. These troubles which are temporary are winning for us a permanent, a glorious and solid reward out of proportion to our pain. So we don't look at the temporary situation. We look beyond to see the eternal benefits."
[You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations, So that [the genuineness] of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fire. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to [your] praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) is revealed.
(1 Peter 1:6, 7)
We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. They are the people God called, because that was his plan.
(Romans 8:28)
