Understanding How it All Works Together

Just as we take many individual ingredients when we bake – which by themselves taste nasty – and combine them together to create savory cookies or cinnamon rolls, God is the master at working hardships for good. Job puts it this way: “When He has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). God desires righteous character, mature Christian faith, and lives marked by depth and compassion. To this end, God takes strange and distasteful events, and He works them together and creates lives of beauty in us. His plan always works for our good and to the Father’s glory. The secret is understanding how it all works together: “When He has tested me, I will come forth as gold” (Job 23:10).