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February Devotional

In case you haven't noticed it yet, life is not perfect and sometimes bad things happen to perfectly good people!  If you are anything at all like me, from time to time you have had to ask the questions, "Is bad stuff part of God's will for my life?!" "Does God send ‘bad stuff' into the lives of His children?

What is God's will for your life?  God's will is what he desires or what he wants in the life of his children. As a parent, there resonates an objection to the idea that a loving Father would randomly send tragedy or evil into the lives of His children. 

"Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to you children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!" Matthew 7: 9 – 11

Can I share with you what I believe makes God ... well ... what makes Him God!

God, because He is all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing and all-wise, takes every last morsel of the bad that happens to us while we are living in this sinful world, and turns it into glorious good! 

God takes the stuff that comes at us because people make wrong choices and turns it into your finest hour! Only God! 

God is not unaware of the fact that we do have an enemy who has come to steal and to kill and to destroy but triumphantly God is able to transform the devil's plunder into a season of power and purpose in your life. Only God!

God can even take the trash in your life and miraculously turn it into treasure! He takes something that has the potential to harm you and revolutionizes it into one of the greatest blessings of your entire life. Only God!

God is able to take a weapon that the enemy has pointed straight at you and to divinely change the ammunition in that weapon from life-stealing to life giving! Only God! He changes Satan's gun powder from a poison into a vitamin! Only God!

Your heavenly Father takes the very worst moment in your life and re-writes the ending so that you always walk in triumph ... never in defeat. Only God can turn the direction of your life so that you have a comeback from your setback! Only God!