What Can God Do with You?

What Can God Do with You?

God changes things … and people.  He takes the ugly and messy and turns it into beautiful places and spaces and creatures.

Behold the caterpillar.  I’ve never seen a beautiful one, yet I’ve seen thousands of lovely butterflies.  When the caterpillar spins its cocoon, for him, this is the end.  And yet, in due time the transformation happens and out comes a beautifully balanced butterfly. 

The hard places come.  The tough times show up and we wonder why and how will we ever survive.  God in his mercy goes to work and turns those awkward and difficult moments into proving grounds for our good.  I don’t like that, yet I have proven it so in my own life.

I have ugly moments in my past that I’d rather not dwell on, and yet I have beauty marks because of those scars.  That is the grace of God at work. 

God works in our lives.  He shapes us, directs our thoughts and steps, and leads us, and sometimes, we don’t even know it as His hand. 

I took a job in 2009 that I thought was a dead-end job, yet it provided the needed income for us.  In 2016, that company paid out an ESOP dividend that was such a huge financial blessing and a total surprise.  Those dog days of working 11-hour days were rewarded and God blessed.

I continue to learn this “TRUST” thing with the God I serve. 

I’m reminded of this: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5

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P Michael Biggs

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