don't always get it....

Don't always get it
by John Fischer

I've been searching for the fitting conclusion to the events of this week—a Catch that would tie everything up in a final statement, erase all negatives and show everything to be already working out for the good of all parties since we love God and are called according to his purposes—but I haven't found it yet. That's because it doesn't exist, or it does… it just doesn't look like what I thought it was going to look like. Most often, truth is something like this—some way of looking at things that we misinterpret because we are always looking at God's promises with our wishes in mind.

Hear ye, hear ye: God is not adjusting his universe to our personal needs and wants; he is conforming us to his, and the reason it's all working out is because it is his purposes that are that are being worked out.

So, no, I don't get it yet. I don't understand why things happened this week the way they did. I may never understand even in heaven. But do I have to? Isn't it enough to know that He is? There are some things not meant for us to understand, but still, we go on trusting. Somewhere in his big wide universe, God is working out His purposes in and through us. That's a privilege grand enough to be kept in the dark.