Top of the week to you ladies! I hope your weekend was a good one.  Jay and I had a great time hanging out with friends and family, and I loved all the thunder storms we had!

I have been thinking about something lately.  I was talking with a  friend last week about healing, and how sometimes God chooses to heal people and other times he does not, no matter how much we pray.  I was feeling very frustrated about this until she said something that I have not been able to get out of my head since:

God gives us everything we need to live a Godly life.

Notice how it’s not comfortable life. Or healthy life.  Or rich life.  Not that He is not able to bless us with health or wealth, but that unless it serves a higher purpose, these in themselves are not His priority for us.

At my church this week my father-in-law spoke about a verse he thinks is widely misunderstood.  Romans 8:28 says “And we know that God causes everything to work for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”

He pointed out that this is not as much an earth promise as it is an eternity promise. I am sure persecuted Christians around the world base their hope on the eternal promise this passage portrays and don’t assume that the “good” means earthly comfort.

Just because we are suffering on this earth does not mean God has forgotten us.  What it does mean is that God sees the bigger picture.  How can we live with such a mindset that we see the bigger picture on a daily basis?

Michelle