My belief that God is good doesn't change. His word says it...I embrace it. Not too long ago I was driving home from a funeral. I sat and watched those who were his family and friends mourn. This circumstance that caused the death didn't have to happen. A fleeting thought drifted across my mind as I drove home...what a waste.
As quick as the thought marched across my mind another came right on its heels.
...........nothing is wasted in me. I pondered it for a few days, rolled it over and over.
nothing wasted....nothing wasted...no not one thing.
To us it seems like waste, a life cut short, a marriage dissolved, illness. They all seem wasteful if we look at it through our own eyes. And though I don't believe God orchestrates hard times I do believe that he will not let one thing go to waste. He is the master of recycling.
It is a tough task to look at others and circumstances through God's eyes. When I do one thing becomes clear...if he allows it...he uses it. He uses it to bring us to redemption that no one, no not one of us is lost.
"This, in a nutshell, is that will; that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed--not a single detail missed--and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole."--John 6: 39 The Message
