God does all things right. There’s never a time he gets it wrong. There’s never a detail he overlooks. There’s never a promise left unfulfilled.
He can be fully trusted to get this right. Yes, I’m talking about your personal “this”. This thing that still isn’t fixed in your life. This thing that still hurts and still doesn’t make sense. This thing that feels so unimaginably cruel and unfair.
GOD CAN BE TRUSTED TO GET THIS RIGHT.
There will come a time in each of our lives when absolutely nothing else in our entire existence will matter other than our faith in Jesus. Everything else will be gone and over, and the one thing that remains is an eternal destination solely based on our relationship with Jesus. Either he knows us, or he doesn’t. Either we surrendered to him, or we didn’t. Either we call on his name, or we don’t.
For every soul that sought Jesus, we have the promise of experiencing God’s divine plan unfold and coming to see everything made right. Yes, everything. For the one who chooses Jesus, this life is the worst we will ever experience. For the one who chooses something other than Jesus or simply makes no choice at all, this life is the best they will ever experience.
Every challenge, every trial, every difficulty ever faced in this life has come upon us with the permission of God. Yes, it first had to pass through the hands of God to touch our lives. He may not have orchestrated it, but he allowed it. He allows these things because he can use these things. Difficult times in our lives produce eternal good. It’s on our knees we find a faithful God who will always rescue us.
We all want the mountain top experiences in life, but if you’ve ever been on top of a mountain, you know absolutely nothing grows there. It’s desolate with nothing but hard rock. And that’s why God allows us to have those mountain top, monumental moments in life, but he doesn’t let us just stay there. We don’t grow there. Where we grow is in the valley.
In the valley is where the mountains look overwhelming sometimes. In the valley is where we can feel lost or stuck. In the valley is where we come to our low points.
But my sister, don’t miss the fact that in the valley is where growth happens. Trees, grass and flowers grow in the valley, not on the mountain top. And God knows that’s where we grow too. So, he allows valleys where we’re surrounded by the shadow of death. Not to destroy us, but grow us.
In our study of Revelation, we last left off with those souls who haven’t surrendered to Jesus facing the great Tribulation. The believers are rescued from all the terror that will come on this Earth. We’re already in Heaven, gathered around the throne. We’ve been saved from the crushing and chaos of the Tribulation time to come. But, this time of tribulation is an opportunity for those who haven’t believed before to come to Jesus now. It’s their deep dark valley in the shadow of death where they can grow and turn to God.
And sooooo many will. Scripture says they will be a vast crowd, too many to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language. Although they didn’t trust in Jesus before the rapture, they come to Jesus in the terrible times of Tribulation. You see, here’s the truth – they waited for life to get worse before calling out to Jesus in faith. And life, got worse … so much worse.
If we wait to call out to Jesus, there’s so much worse coming our way. The unimaginable times of Tribulation are promised. They’re coming. It’s real. You think our world today is bad … oh mercy, what is to come is unspeakable. For the ones who refuse Jesus, it only gets worse. And the reason it gets worse is because God knows tribulation brings us to him.