What happens, if someone drowns and the only one noticing cannot help? And the one would might be able to help soars high above and doesn't notice anything wrong? How does somebody handle persecution, sorrow, pain? - Can it separate a true believer from the love of God? It can and it cannot. Another paradox. For, many believers stumble, when temptations, sorrow, grief, poverty, sickness, persecution or loneliness come their way. Even Jesus felt forsaken in his darkest hour. Was he separated from God? No, he wasn't. Did he know? No. Did it help him out of the pit? No. What use then has this love of God? What will it do, if the waters are getting higher, if some storm is brewing? God will never forsake his loved ones. But they may not know it. Nothing may happen to solve a difficult solution. And - guess what, we deserve all the bad. Deserve much worse. While wining and complaining, awareness gets lost that man deserves the bad stuff. It is the good stuff that is undeserved grace. Health, ease, friendship and more, they are undeserved goodies. To be able to find God, they may have to go. By accepting that God has every right to do as he pleases, the believer learns to know he will never be separated from God. By faith, not by knowledge or by sight.
Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? Trusting God may not take someone where he wants to be, but it will take him where God wants him to be. Even if it is drowning - or a cross.
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