I wanted to share a mini revelation I got yesterday, that though small in size is great!
Most people ask, “How can a truly all-powerful, yet truly good God allow so much bad in this world to occur?” And I got it sorted in an image while cooking for the Squad:
There is a vase on a table. Because we live in a fallen world and sin happens, subsequently bad things happen. So…the vase is bumped and begins to fall. NOW, God has two choices; He can stop it from hitting the ground, or He can let it hit. He has the power to do either. BUT BECAUSE, I trust that God is a completely good God, I know that whether it hits the ground, or is saved, no matter what happens it is good. I when I finally agree that no matter what my good God permits, the outcome is good, then it opens my eyes to an infinite number of outcomes: the vase could be caught and returned to its spot, it could bounce on the ground and return, it could break and be left, it could break and be repaired, it could not break and find a new spot, it could…it could…it could…
So, what is the good in poverty, babies dying at birth, war, car wrecks that rob parents of their teens, cancer, hunger, pain, and all these things that we call bad? I don’t know, and I will never know for many of them on this side of death. BUT, I do know that I serve a good God, and that if my all-powerful, good God allowed the vase to fall, then there is a good in it that I cannot see.
“All God makes is good. Can it be that, that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God? That which seems evil only seems so because of perspective, the way the eyes see shadows. Above the clouds, light never stops shining.” ~One Thousand Gifts
