GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD

There's a story in the Bible about Joseph and his brothers who sold him into slavery, he persevered becoming the right hand of the king, the brothers ran into a mess of trouble and came running to Joseph for help, apologizing all over the place for their ill treatment of him, and Joseph said to them it was no big deal, that ...here's the punchline (my very favorite of the few Bible stories I know)...You meant it for ill, but God meant it for good.

I am not at all sure but I think that's in the very first book in the Bible which means finding the good in a bad situation, i.e., finding God in it, has been an accepted practice for thousands of years. Why, then, do we still resist it?

When something to our mind's eye happens that is less than wonderful, we promptly go into a grey-brown-puce funk, with a strong feeling of being unloved, unwanted, unneeded and unappreciated. Maybe it's because not many overwhelmingly bad things happen where we have no choice but to turn to God...we haven't yet learned to trust God in the dailies.

I suspect that's the measure of true spiritual growth. How steady in our socks are we when we feel betrayed by a friend or the car doesn't start? 

Remembering but refusing to do the right thing, find the gold in it so to speak, because it was just not right is ego on parade...old Lucy leading the pack...and we all know there is no spiritual growth there.

I'm a lot less scrupulous than I once was...I give myself angel points whenever finally I think to find the gold, and so seek it..

All things work together for good. -- Romans 8:28

Thank you.