“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”
Genesis 50:20
Sometimes the schemes of the enemy come in more ways than we think.
He can use our indifference, our carelessness, our mistrust, our past hurt, our confusion; all to make us believe that we have somehow become separated from the love of God.
But if this were true, then what did Jesus die for?
He didn’t die as a reward for perfect people, lives lived well, hearts already clean. He died for brokenness. He died so that separation would die with Him.
I have lived my whole life with freedom, reconciliation and wholeness readily available to me, but no idea how to let go of the things that were already filling my arms.
On my race I learned that the Lord has already cleared a way for me to have all of his good gifts. Jesus died so that I could give little to receive much.
And all it took was a nudge. A mandatory devotional time or teaching that pushed me into the presence of the Lord. That was all I needed. That’s all we will ever need. It is in this space that all good promises are fulfilled, where apathy, pain, and confusion are used for our good and God‘s glory.
These tiny pieces of ourselves are in this place exchanged for the goodness of knowing him.
The Lord took nine months of my life and gave me an eternity, but all it really took was one moment.
