After taking a quiz in Alg class today, my mind started to aimlessly wander, as it does on many occasions. I started to think of my speech class and a boy in it. I told myself if I didn’t take speech this semester, I wouldn’t be in this mess, but I then thought what seems like a potential mess could become a beautiful mess.
God is the best at making something that seems completely out of control to something that we couldn’t live without. I’ll give you an example. Almost three years ago I dislocated my kneecap. I was going to bend over and it dislocated. I’ve never been in such distress and pain in my life. I was screaming and all I could do was cry out to God, “God, heal my knee!” The following months were tough. I went to the doctor and was put in a knee immobilizer. The following February, I had my first knee surgeries in hopes to stabilize my knee so it wouldn’t dislocate again. When that surgery didn’t do the trick, I went under the knife again to try again, and that did the trick.
What I didn’t know the day I dislocated my kneecap was that God was getting ready to do something big in me. That day, if you told me God was going to use this to bring me closer to Him, I’m not sure how I responded. I probably would’ve been relieved. At that time, I wasn’t walking with God the way I wanted, and needed, to be. Because of this life altering injury, I am now the person I am today because out of the temporary mess, God made me closer to Him. I grew in Him and was on fire through events that happened following the first surgery. Without this, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” God’s timing is perfect. We, as mortal man, see the mess as God being wrong, as Him “making a mistake.” The fact that we point our fingers and blame God for our trials is false thinking. James 1:2-4 says “consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” In Isaiah 55:8 God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways."
God is so much higher then any human being. He is sovereign and is totally in control. We see things as a disaster, but when God looks at it, He sees His creation, His beautiful mess.
Stephanie
*All scriptures are taken from the NIV Bible unless otherwise noted.
God is the best at making something that seems completely out of control to something that we couldn’t live without. I’ll give you an example. Almost three years ago I dislocated my kneecap. I was going to bend over and it dislocated. I’ve never been in such distress and pain in my life. I was screaming and all I could do was cry out to God, “God, heal my knee!” The following months were tough. I went to the doctor and was put in a knee immobilizer. The following February, I had my first knee surgeries in hopes to stabilize my knee so it wouldn’t dislocate again. When that surgery didn’t do the trick, I went under the knife again to try again, and that did the trick.
What I didn’t know the day I dislocated my kneecap was that God was getting ready to do something big in me. That day, if you told me God was going to use this to bring me closer to Him, I’m not sure how I responded. I probably would’ve been relieved. At that time, I wasn’t walking with God the way I wanted, and needed, to be. Because of this life altering injury, I am now the person I am today because out of the temporary mess, God made me closer to Him. I grew in Him and was on fire through events that happened following the first surgery. Without this, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” God’s timing is perfect. We, as mortal man, see the mess as God being wrong, as Him “making a mistake.” The fact that we point our fingers and blame God for our trials is false thinking. James 1:2-4 says “consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” In Isaiah 55:8 God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways."
God is so much higher then any human being. He is sovereign and is totally in control. We see things as a disaster, but when God looks at it, He sees His creation, His beautiful mess.
Stephanie
*All scriptures are taken from the NIV Bible unless otherwise noted.