ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOD!

ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOD




DID YOU ever notice
How that
WHEN you are in tune
With God
ALL THINGS
SEEM to work out


And it DOESN'T MATTER
IF you are on PLAN A, B, C,
Or even PLAN Z


Things
Just seem to work out
RIGHT-WHEN
You are marching
To GOD'S TUNE
And NOT your own


“WE KNOW
That all things work together
FOR GOOD
For those who LOVE GOD
-and who are called
ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE” Romans 8:28


MARY (OUR mother and MOTHER of God)
Was the very first EXAMPLE
And quite a SUPERB example
At that


WHEN she was
First called
To be the mother
Of Jesus
She initially responded
With GREAT fear and concern


Mary was TROUBLED
When the angel first appeared to her


“And when she saw him
She was troubled
At his saying
And cast in her mind
What manner of salutation
This should be” Luke 1:29


“Then Mary
Said unto the angel
'HOW shall this be
Since I KNOW NOT a man'” Luke 1:34


But Mary
Gradually overcame her apprehension
And STEPPED OUT IN FAITH


And the WHOLE WORLD
Because of her FAITH
Was BLESSED to see a MESSIAH
THE MESSIAH
THE SON OF GOD


THINGS “worked together FOR GOOD”
Because Mary responded POSITIVELY
With faith


WHAT ABOUT US
WHEN our plans of A, B, and C don't work out


Do we
STILL have the faith
To BELIEVE in God
That God can make things
“WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD”
In our lives


IF you are
Reading this today


It is BECAUSE
You are family or friends
And you and I
BOTH STUCK with God's plan
WHEN perhaps
OUR very own plans
Weren't working out


I WANTED
To have a career
MEET a woman
And have a family


But I got hit
With a DEVASTATING ILLNESS
And MADE A PROMISE TO GOD


“TO LIVE for my family-my friends-
And ALL PEOPLE everywhere”


I BELIEVE
Because of that promise
That you are in my life
WITH LOVE


And I do HONESTLY BELIEVE


That WHEN
We learn to TRUST GOD


And let God
LEAD THE WAY
“ALL THINGS
work TOGETHER for GOOD”


NOT ONLY in Mary and Jesus' lives
BUT IN


OUR OWN LIVES AS WELL


Robert P. Wallman
9-10-14


Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Joyce Rupp-O.S.M.