The Paradox
God allows us to be born
so we can die
He allows us to be sick
so He can heal us
He allows us to be weak
so He can make us strong
He allows us to be poor
so He can make us rich in faith
He allows us to be impatient
so He can teach us patience
He allows us to be lost
so He can seek and save us
He allows us to be dirty with sin
so He can cleanse us with his blood
He allows us to be discouraged
so He can encourage us
He allows us to know grief
so He can comfort us
He allows us to fall
so He can pick us up
He allows us to have problems
so He can solve them
He allows us to think we are wise
so He can teach us foolishness
He allows us to be proud
so He can humble us
He allows us to be broken
so He can put us together again.
God allows us to backslide
so He can bring us to repentance
He allows us to experience conflict
so He can give us his peace
He allows us to feel empty
so He can fill us with his Spirit
He allows us to experience hunger
so He can feed us his Word
He allows us to be imprisoned
so He can free us by his power
He allows us to cry
so He can wipe away our tears
He allows us to know fear
so He can teach us to trust him
He allows us to feel lonely
so He can manifest his presence
He allows us to be rejected by man
so He can show us his acceptance
He allows us to be hated by the world
so He can shower us with love
He allows us to go through valleys
so He can show us mountains
He allows us to be attacked by enemies
so He can give us victory
He allows us to suffer hard trials
so He can teach us how to rejoice
God allows us to die
so we can live with him, forever.
What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?
(Romans 8:31)
Copyright © Gloria Shell Mitchell | Year Posted 2021
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