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“But
God” - When Everything Is Going
Wrong
How
Can I Trust God When Everything Is Going Wrong?
Bayless
Conley
You’ve
probably been in a situation that just doesn’t seem fair. Perhaps you’ve been
mistreated or hurt.
Maybe
you’ve been cheated in a business deal, lied to by a friend, or had something
special taken from you.
In
these situations, you and I naturally start to wonder, What is God doing? Why
is He letting this happen in my life?
If
you’ve ever felt like life is out of control, I want to give you two words of
comfort: “But God.”
These
two words have the power to bring a new understanding to every negative
situation you will face.
To
show you what I mean, I want to look at the story of Joseph. In Acts 7:9-10, we
read a summary of what he experienced:
“… the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But
God was with him and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor
and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor
over Egypt and all his house.”
Joseph’s
story is the ultimate example of reassurance for all of us who wonder, “What is
God doing in my life?”
Joseph
was betrayed by his own family and led into circumstances beyond his control.
He
was sold as a slave, falsely accused of attempted rape, and thrown into prison.
He
experienced a frightful downward spiral like no other, until those two
beautiful, life-changing words that we find right there in Acts 7:9 — “But God.”
The
odds were against Joseph,but God was with him.
His
life was out of control, but God had a plan.
He
was left with nothing, but God was about to give Him everything.
God
delivered Joseph from all of his troubles, gave him favor and wisdom, and took
him from the bottom to put him on the top.
He
was released from prison, given special favor by Pharaoh, and eventually
promoted to become the second most powerful person in the whole land.
And
at the end of the story in Genesis 50, when his conniving brothers finally
realized that Joseph was the governor over all of Egypt, they understandably
assumed he would take his revenge on them.
But instead, Joseph turned to them and said in verses 20-21, “You meant evil against me; but
God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save
many people alive. Now therefore,
do not be afraid.”
Friend,
what the devil and his bunch mean for evil, God can turn into good.
If
you find yourself today betrayed by those you trusted, or thrown into
circumstances beyond your control, remember those two words: “But God.”
You
see, when you don’t factor God into the circumstance, things can appear utterly
hopeless. But when you factor Him in, all things are possible.
So
don’t allow your circumstances to make you bitter. Don’t give up just because
you can’t see what God has planned for you right now.
Keep
looking to God, even if it seems that for a season He’s not working in your
life.
Friend,
He is working. You just hang in there. Don’t quit.
He is
faithful. You stay plugged in, and you’ll be able to say at the end of your
story, “It looked bad, but God…”
Bayless Conley is an American gospel pastor and television personality who hosts Answers With Bayless Conley on television.
Answers is a
weekly program that can be found on CNBC in Europe, North Africa and
the Middle East and on other local and regional channels in other
places. Answers is broadcast in Mexico through Genesis Television.
Bayless's Answers program seeks to bring
"practical teaching of the Bible to its viewers in a non-religious
way." As a recovering drug addict and alcoholic,
Conley has stated that he found God over 35 years ago through a 12-year-old Christian boy.
Bayless also leads Cottonwood
Church.
https://www.answersbc.org/can-trust-god-everything-going-wrong/
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