When you are going through severe trials you will likely be tempted to question God's love, wisdom, power, or justice in what you suffer. "How could God allow this tragedy to happen if He is love, if He is almighty, and if He is fair? How can God be all-wise and think that this is good for me? Where was God when this happened to my loved one?" At such times, a very important and life-changing truth has been obscured: hope. We are only looking at our present pain and heartache. We are only considering our present loss. And it hurts. Wow does it hurt! However, what if God took that pain you have endured and made it a comfort and blessing to you and many others? What if that which appeared ugly was made by God into something beautiful beyond imagination? What makes the pain and sorrow of this life so unbearable is a sense of hopelessness. However, add to the equation that God will make everything beautiful in His own time, we have hope to press on. We can receive comfort and peace in knowing that God will take that which is ugly and make it beautiful. How it will all come together, we may not know. But the Lord WILL perfect that which concerns me (Psalm 138:8).
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“ Great Sermon! ” This is a very encouraging, comforting and useful sermon!
M. Wagner (3/12/2023)
from Alberta, Canada
“ Heaven's perspective on the miseries of life ” Pastor Price explains that in God's time, whether in this life, or whether we are in heaven, He will make all things beautiful. That's our unchangeable hope. That's why we can have joy regardless of what we're going through. When we reach that heavenly shore, we will have heaven's perspective on all the miseries of this life. Presently we have an earthly perspective and we try to have, as God's people, a heavenly perspective on what happens in our life. But day in and day out, we seem to fail. But when we are in the presence of Christ, we will have heaven's perspective on all the miseries of this life. And then we will see the beauty of God's wisdom in ordaining what He did for our lives and for the lives of our loved ones. Then it will make sense to us, even if it doesn't make any sense to us right now. So let us cling to the truth that God already "hath made every thing beautiful in his time." That is our comfort in the midst of all the miseries of this life.
