His Perfect Will

I know y'all may be tired of me recounting my small group hour at church and subsequently just write about what other people say, but it's good stuff and maybe I just need to hear it again and maybe I just might need to read it again one day as well.  I have to preface this week's topic of "When bad things happen to good people" though by saying that it is my least favorite topic and usually when I know about this topic ahead of time I skip class...yep that's the real truth of it.  But this week I forgot that we were covering my least favorite topic ever so there I sat.

But God is not in the business of wasting time in dealing with us.  Our hurts, our difficulties and our pain is not in vain.  God uses every last bit of happiness and hurt that we experience to bring us and those around us into a closer/deeper relationship with Him.  He brings good out of tough situations...Glory to His Name!

God created a perfect world.  He did not create a world with sin in it, that was our doing.  Our bad decisions, our poor choices brought sin into the world not a holy, righteous God.  He cannot be something He is not and He is not sin.  He is perfect.  Therefore, He cannot bring anything but a perfect plan to our difficult circumstances. When we see nothing but darkness He is the light.  In our imperfection, He still has a perfect plan.  Sometimes the things that come our way in life are a result of our bad decisions and our poor choices and sometimes those things happen as a result of the sinful/fallen world we live in, nevertheless, God still has a perfect plan.  He is not pleased with our poor choices and He desires for us to make wise, God-honoring decisions but He does not abandon us in our difficulty.

We attach our human words and our human emotions to God, because we don't know of any other way to describe Him or feel about Him, but our words fail miserably in comparison to His majesty.  Our emotions no matter how strongly we feel them fall so very short in comparison to the all encompassing love of our Savior.  He cannot be anything other than who He is...and He is holy and righteous.  His will is perfect, even though I am not.  

1 Corinthians 2:9, "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived-the things God has prepared for those who love Him-these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit."