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“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
This is an absolute statement; there are no qualifications with it. God says “all things,” and does not make any exceptions to this statement. Sometimes some very sad things happen in our lives, even as Christians, and we may find it very hard to think that they are working for our good. But the Lord says so. How can something tragic or sad work for our good? It is because God teaches us important lessons through the difficulties and problems in our lives, and perhaps we learn things through troubles that we could not have learned any other way. Earlier in this same chapter, the Apostle Paul says that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us (Romans 8:18). So let us remember that everything that happens in our lives is allowed of the Lord, even if someone else causes the trouble. The Lord is going to use it to “work together for good.”
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