A friend of mine, the chaplain of a college, was brokenhearted when he found out one of his brightest students, a Christian, had been hit by a bus and killed. One upset student asked my friend, “Why did Jesus kill Cliff?” My friend answered, “You are an intelligent person. You ought to be able to tell the difference between Jesus and a bus!”
While God doesn’t make bad things happen, the bible promises us that in the midst of bad things, God works to bring good out of it all (see Romans 8:28). There used to be a guy who had his own TV show. And one of the other guys on the show, Jose Melos, was a fantastic piano player. Sometimes the show host would walk over to the piano and slap his hands down on a bunch of keys. They made an awful sound, of course. Then he would say, “OK, Jose, let’s see what you can make out of that mess!”
Jose would then out his fingers on the exact keys the show host had played and build those sounds into a magnificent melody. Incredibly, the clashing sounds became a beautiful song.
God can do that with the messes in our lives. God is able to take our tragedies, and the mistakes we make, and turn them into something beautiful.
While God doesn’t make bad things happen, the bible promises us that in the midst of bad things, God works to bring good out of it all (see Romans 8:28). There used to be a guy who had his own TV show. And one of the other guys on the show, Jose Melos, was a fantastic piano player. Sometimes the show host would walk over to the piano and slap his hands down on a bunch of keys. They made an awful sound, of course. Then he would say, “OK, Jose, let’s see what you can make out of that mess!”
Jose would then out his fingers on the exact keys the show host had played and build those sounds into a magnificent melody. Incredibly, the clashing sounds became a beautiful song.
God can do that with the messes in our lives. God is able to take our tragedies, and the mistakes we make, and turn them into something beautiful.
~Tony Campolo~
Taken from Footprints for Teens by Margaret Fishback Powers
Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion he understood
All I had to offer him
Was brokenness and strife
But He made something beautiful of my life
by Gloria Gaither (Spectrum of Praise No.505)
Isn't this beautiful?
Thank God for the stuffs that didn't hit you!
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