But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
Romans 9:20
We may not enjoy our circumstances, but a sovereign God is at work to create the good He desires from them. They may be difficult experiences, but they are not bad in the sense that God is somehow not in control over them. God uses even the worst moments to bring about His purposes. Human sin and worldly sorrows complicate this perspective while we live upon the earth. But God is moving, shaping, and creating good even from the very worst things.
Political upheavals, economic downturns, natural disasters, wars, man-made catastrophes, famines, and pandemics all bend to be molded by God’s hands to shape people to believe the gospel, trust Him, and prepare for a future that makes all things new from every bit of this current mess.
And that is good! It is more than wishful thinking. It is a certain hope. The clay is molded. It is fired in the oven. It emerges to be exactly what the potter wanted to make for his use. We must trust in this certain and sure hope… a future history much better than what we now know.
Like Tolkien’s brilliant and thoughtful insight of a question: “Is everything sad going to come untrue?”… we will know a day where all life’s pains and miseries melt into a forgotten past in a bliss beyond our current imagining. Until then, we are the clay lovingly sculpted. Our lives are the grand tapestry God weaves. We should not question His wise designs for us. We wait only for when all the sadness will become untrue.
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