“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
Often, even as followers of Yeshua, we can spend much of our lives wondering why particular things are happening, in general, to others and to ourselves. And while Yehovah does not send everything that arrives and occurs in our lives, because He is Almighty and sovereign, we have to acknowledge that sometimes He does allow things to come which we would prefer not to have arrive on our doorsteps. But although Yehovah does not send all that we would consider to be negative, we can be confident and fully assured that He will, in due time or season, work it all together for our good. (See Romans 8:28). Let us look at a few Biblical examples of things that happened to the saints of old, which Yehovah turned around for good, although I am sure at the time, those people involved must have wondered how He could, or at least would, do it.
As a child Moses was placed in a basket and left floating in the river so he would be rescued and raised in Pharaoh’s household. After killing an Egyptian while defending an Israelite he fled the country and spent 40 years in a wilderness until Yehovah send him back to lead the Israelites to freedom. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into a fiery furnace, Daniel into a lion’s den – neither of which would be as comfortable as a five-star hotel vacation. Paul was shipwrecked, spent nights floating in the sea, was bitten by a snake, beaten with rods and whipped several times for his faith. Joseph was betrayed, sold into slavery by his own brothers, falsely accused and imprisoned for many years. And yet he was able to say that what they did to him for evil, Yehovah had meant for, and turned to good. The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), but Yeshua comes to bring life and more abundantly than we could imagine, particularly when we are going through what seems like similar experiences to those we have just read about. So, while what you may be going through now does not feel comfortable and to be rejoiced over, Yehovah knows exactly where you are, what you are enduring, and He will, in due time, bring you through to victory by His power and sovereign grace.