For every hardship, God is sovereign, and he always has a good purpose.
I’m Joni Eareckson Tada and sometimes God does things in our lives that seem utterly counterintuitive. Like, I recall being at a conference and right before I was to speak, there I was backstage in terrible pain, hardly able to put two words together in a sentence. The timing seemed crazy, but I kept hearing God say in 1 Kings 12, “This thing is from me.” And that was a source of comfort. Right then, I cast myself onto the Lord; I begged him for strength. And you know what? At that conference, God showed up big time. So remember, for each interruption, for every weakness, God is sovereign, and he’s always got a purpose. So, if today you are being tested in a really tough trial, God may be saying to you, “This thing is from me.” So hold on; he’s sovereign and you know what? His purposes are always, always good.
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