god created the universe, and he does things his way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe.
-james vernon mcgee
A common question, from believers and non-believers alike, is “Why does God allow bad things to happen?”
Why are innocent people killed?
How could a loving God allow sickness, poverty, death, and disaster to occur?
He has the power to prevent it.
Why doesn’t He?
What if I told you that, through an understanding of God’s character, you could say, in the worst imaginable scenario, “All Glory To God!”
What if I told you that this phrase, “All Glory To God!”, could become the battle cry of your life? That it could be an anchor that would allow you to weather any storm?
I pray that God makes your heart that “fertile ground” that allows the seed of His Word to grow and produce a fruit thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!
god’s grace in calamity
On a hill named Golgotha, a perfect, sinless man was brutally executed in a public way.
He was mocked and spat on.
He was stripped naked and slapped in the face.
He was beaten so badly that He no longer looked like a human (Isaiah 52:14)
An unspeakable act of human injustice, hatred, and evil took place that day.
Yet, in remembering this act, the most vile and disgusting act ever perpetrated by man, we, as believers, shout, “All Glory To God!”
Through eternity, past present and future, all of creation, when recalling this event, shouts “All Glory To God”
I ask then: Can God bring glory through your situation?
Is any situation you face, real or imagined, more heartbreaking, more disgusting, more unthinkable, than what happened that day to Jesus?
If God, through an unsearchable and impossible to understand wisdom, can take THAT act, the worst act, and use it to bring about the greatest expression of grace and mercy that the universe has ever and will ever know, an expression of grace and mercy that extends to every person, to all of creation, throughout eternity…Can He not use your situation to do the same?
Can He use the martyrdom of a saint to bring about the awakening of other people?
He can! All Glory To God!
Can He use the evil act of one person to ignight the heart of another toward love and mercy?
He can! All Glory To God!
Can He use the division of some to bring about the unity of others?
He can! All Glory To God!
Can He use your life, with all of its faults?
Can He use your hands, which at one moment were used as instruments of evil, and transform them into tools of healing?
Can He use your mouth, which at one time spoke blasphemies, and transform it into a megaphone that proclaims the glory of God to the ends of the earth?
Can He use your mind, which previously harbored evil thoughts, and transform it into one that can comprehend a Holy being in which there is no darkness whatsoever?
He Can!
All Glory To GOD!
Let us never again look upon a situation, a person, an event or an act and elevate it to a position that is higher than our God.
Let us never again take something created and let it rob us of the faith we have in its Creator.
God’s glory can not and will not be diminished.
Romans 11:33-36
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.