If you have been following along in the sermon series on 1st Peter you know that the Apostle worked diligently to keep disciples of Jesus Christ attuned to how God was at work in the midst of their struggles. I know that for most Christians it’s relatively straightforward to acknowledge, at least at a theoretical level, that God is conforming us to the image of Christ through difficulties (Romans 8:28-29). For most of us the discouragement comes when we cannot see tangible signs of how our hardships fit into the “big picture” of God’s plan to redeem the universe (Ephesians 3:7-13) . John Piper has written a recent blog post that is relevant to this issue which reads in part….
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God cannot make plain all he is doing, because there are millions and millions and millions and millions of effects of every event in your life, the good and the bad. God guides them all. They all have micro purposes and macro purposes. He cannot tell you all of them because your brain can’t hold all of them.
Trust does not demand more than God has told us. And he has given us immeasurably precious promises that he is in control of all things and only does good to his children. And he has given us a very thick book where we can read story after story after story about how he rules for the good of his people.
Let’s trust him and not ask for what our brains cannot contain.
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Read the whole thing and see an illustration of this point by clicking HERE
