In times like this, this is a question that gets asked a lot.
In fact this is the most common question, along with “Why God”, when people go through any type of situation that they don’t understand.
It’s difficult to see the light when the darkness seems like it’s closing in and taking over.
But in Genesis, in the story of Joseph, we read this verse -
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good
to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
Genesis 50:20
The trite answer to these questions is ‘God has a plan’ but actually that is the truth. No matter what life throws at us, no matter what situations cross our paths, God has a plan.
In Joseph’s life he turned his many trials - from his brothers selling him to him being Potiphar’s slave to him being in prison - around so he could be in the very place needed to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams and save millions of Egyptian lives in the famine. And throughout it all God was with him every step of the way.
And God still does that today with us. He turns our trials and our dark situations into things that can and will glorify Him - light in the darkness and life in the barren places.
He has a plan. Even in the middle of this awful virus. Even when it’s people we know and love who are sick...
We trust a God who has a plan and who is always there with us.
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