When the Good Thing is a Hard Thing

When the Good Thing is a Hard Thing

"For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly... blessed is the man who trust in You." (Psalm 84:11-12)

Can you hear what I hearing? He is the SOURCE OF LIGHT, SHIELD OF LOVE and SUPPLIER OF LIFE... for all who trust and walk with Him and there is absolutely NO GOOD THING that He will withhold from each of us that trust and obey Him. Yes, EVERY good thing we need, for EVERY thing we face, we are promised. And by His grace and for His glory He will supply all we need to walk through EVERY door He opens.

Ultimately this means He knows best... because what may not seem good at the moment can be exactly that good thing He didn't withhold to keep us humble, contrite and usable. Sometimes the good thing from God is a hard thing we will need to endure for Him and our own good. Like Paul's thorn and Jesus's cross... what do I see in them both? God knows best and we can trust Him with the rest.

He's promised to withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly with Him. Sometimes the hard thing is a holy thing. The painful thing can be a sanctified thing, a trial ordained by God, that He's using to get Jesus out of you.

He, better than anyone, knows what's best... even when the hard but holy thing was allowed for our good and His glory. We can trust what He knows, even when His best seems undesirable, unbearable and unreasonable at the moment.

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