Purpose, not Problem
June 3, 2007
I’d been looking at a lid (pictured to the left) on my desk for the better half of the day today, wondering where it came from.
Just as I was about to toss it in the trash, I remembered that I had put most of my jewelry in a container filled with jewelry cleaning solution this morning. That’s when I figured out the purpose of that lid.
I couldn’t help but reminisce on those days at the dinner table as a kid with my dad trying to coerce me into eating the vegetables that were on my plate. Their purpose? “To make you big and strong” he would say.
The problems that we encounter on our life journeys actually serve the same purpose as the vegetables, that is, to make us ‘big and strong’.
God does not cause the problems that we face, but He allows them to happen. Jam
es 1:2-4 shows us that these problems serve the purpose of making us stronger.
es 1:2-4 shows us that these problems serve the purpose of making us stronger.Verses 2-4 say: “when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.”
So, if you are going through a tough time right now, look at it as an opportunity to grow. Focus not so much on the problem, but on that it serves a purpose in your life.
You may not find out the purpose right away (or you may not figure it out at all), but if you persevere until the end, it is promised that you will be made perfect and complete, needing nothing.
Just remember that all things that happen in our lives (good or bad) are divinely orchestrated-for a purpose! Every lid in your life fits with a container that has something valuable in it.
From my heart, to yours,
Akhenaton
