Dearest child,

Everything in your life can be used as a part of my plan for good. Yes, even the bad things. Even the very situation that you think is intolerable or hopeless or unredeemable. Trust me. This thing, too, will work together for your good and my glory.

How is that possible? It is possible because you love me, because you have been called to walk in my ways, and you have answered yes to that call.

Even now I am in the process of drawing good from the bad. I am committed to taking whatever evil comes into your life and bringing good out of it.

All things will work together for good. Not just some, but all. Even your own failures and faults and areas of sin are opportunities for me to work.

Commit them to me. Confess them. Put them under the blood of my Son.

Even these things will give you cause to praise me. Trust me in this.

God
[Postcards from Heaven]

The upstate New York man was rich in almost every way. His estate was worth millions. He owned houses, land, antiques and cattle. But though on the outside he had it all, he was very unhappy on the inside. His wife was growing old, and the couple was childless. He had always wanted a little boy to carry on the family legacy.

Miraculously, his wife became pregnant in her later years, and she gave birth to a little boy. The boy was severely handicapped, but the man loved him with his whole heart. When the boy was five, his mom died. The dad drew closer to his special son. At age 13, the boy's birth defects cost him his life and the father died soon after from a broken heart.

The estate was auctioned before hundreds of bidders. The first item offered was a painting of the boy. No one bid. They waited like vultures for the riches. Finally, the poor housemaid, who helped raise the boy, offered $5 for the picture and easily took the bid. To every-one's shock, the auctioneer ripped a hand written will from the back of the picture. This is what it said:

"To the person who thinks enough of my son to buy this painting, to this person I give my entire estate."

The auction was over. The greedy crowd walked away in shock and dismay.

How many of us have sought after what we thought were true riches only to find out later that our Father (God in Heaven) was prepared to give us His entire estate if we had only sought after His Son (Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ) alone?

Food for thought: SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED TO YOU.