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“God Turns Evil into Eventual Good”

There is a wonderful significance in that suffering always brings fruit. It either makes us bitter or better. It either sours us or sanctifies us. Everything has two handles. Ultimate happiness depends on which handle we take hold of. Will our problems make us bitter or better?

Suffering will come; there is no way of dodging it. It is good to remember that constant sunshine makes a desert. It is people in prosperity that most easily lose Christ, not people in adversity.

For every one person who gives up Christ under the pressures of pain, trouble, and sorrow, there are a dozen who lose him because of success and wealth and ease.

Constantly in the Bible, the story is that God takes evil and turns it into good. At the Cross, glory comes out of apparent defeat and loss. Christ’s torn flesh becomes a glorified body. The crown of thorns becomes a crown of glory. The crucified malefactor becomes the redeemer of the world. Good Friday gives way to Resurrection Sunday, and the greatest tragedy the world has ever known becomes the glory of the world.

Throughout the Bible, you find that all the evil under the mystic alchemy of God becomes good. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

If it is true that “for every one person who gives up Christ under the pressures of pain, trouble, and sorrow, there are a dozen who lose him because of success and wealth and ease,” then which is the worse tragedy? What do you ask for when you pray?

By Dr Desmond Ford