The Father’s ways are higher than our ways. We will not always understand why He does things a certain way. Nonetheless, we should strive to understand and accept things through His perspective and interests rather than our own. Sometimes there is death and suffering. Sometimes it serves His purpose and He not only allows it but brings it about. This does not make Him wrong because we don’t like it.
31And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. 33But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”
Is there something you are experiencing in your life that is difficult to understand? A death or illness of a loved one? We will not always understand why God heals or does not heal, but we can submit ourselves to serve Him and worship Him either way. We can set our minds to submit to Him. If we stumble in this, we can ask His forgiveness and we can always ask Him for help.
I invite you to pray with me:
Father, I ask You to help me to see things through Your eyes. Help me not to judge with my own. Help me to be strong in my faith, even when things are difficult and I am having a hard time. You are good all the time. Amen.
Shalom.
Devotion by John in service to Christ
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