God's Hand is Always at Work!

If you're like me, there have been some things you've encountered in life that just seem to make no sense...the burden of them seems so overwhelmingly heavy. You don't understand why God chose to do some things the way He did, but you know & trust that the Lord is good...that His ways are perfect. Many things that have caused me such great sorrow, I have seen over time, God has used wonderfully to grow me, to use for His glory alone. I read this quote this morning, in my Voice of the Martyrs' email devotional. It talks about this very thing. May it bless you as it did me:

"Vanilla, butter, sugar, flour, and cocoa headline the list of ingredients for a perfect chocolate cake. Mixing all of these ingredients together makes a sweet dessert. But if we take any one of these individual ingredients alone—like vanilla—the taste is not so sweet, but even bitter. In the same way, God is a master chef, mixing together the ingredients in our lives to make a sweet offering to him. An individual experience by itself may be bitter; yet mixed together with the whole, our lives turn out to be a divine creation. Are you experiencing a bitter trial right now? Wait to see how God will use that experience and bring other events into the mix. Trust him, wait, and see." ~VOM email devotional, Sept. 10, 2009

I wish you a lovely day in Him, resting in His goodness. May you "...taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!" ~Psalm 34:8