In my book: The Patriot Band, which I just finished, and in
my devotions reading about Joseph, one major thing had appeared over and over
again; God has planned everything ahead of time, and knows what’s best.
You know, a lot of times things don’t go the way we want. I’m
sure Joseph didn’t want to be thrown into a pit, sold as a slave to Egypt,
thrown in to prisoner for something he didn’t do, and then after he interpreted
the cupbearers dream, the man forgot about him for two years! In my book one of
the main character’s family gets their house burned, his Dad condemned to die,
and he and his mom sent to work in an enemy fort. In both stories, the way that
they got through was faith in God. It doesn’t say how Joseph felt until Genesis’s
chapter 50.
“You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.” That’s
what Joseph said in verse 20. Wow! After all he went through, Joseph said that
to his brothers? Yeah. He could have killed them with a wave of his hand. But
he kept that mindset the whole time. Think about if we lived like that.
Everything that happens, God means it for good! Nothing that happens isn’t in
God’s plan. If we trust God things seem different. Our mindset is “God is doing
this for a reason, I have to trust him.”
My younger brother Elijah has OCD/Autism. One year ago we
started a diet called the GAPS diet. I would recommend the book highly. For the
first seven months Elijah grew worse. He had rages of angers all day long which
were often violent, Showers sometimes lasted seven hours, and so on. Around the
end of August, after taking him off of probiotics which were supposed to help,
(He was getting too many) he greatly improved.
Now Elijah is practically like a normal person. His showers
are a little longer than most people’s and he has some noise intolerance, but
he is like a new person. Now this was a HUGE trial. It seemed like there was
never a moment’s rest, but by trusting in God, and through his wisdom showing
us this diet, Elijah is healing.
You may be wondering how this difficulty proved God’s
wisdom. Here it is. 1. My family, along with me, was helped in weight loss,
allergies, acne, and more. 2. Here is the even better part. One of my aunt’s
for the past seven years has had depression, mind and body problems. Her daughter
this fall came because she felt God wanted her to come and help Elijah in any
way she could. She was fine to be on the diet with us, and after the first two
months she began feeling better. She had no depression and felt better. (She
like my aunt had had depression.) She told her mom, my aunt, and she decided to
do it. After just three weeks she began to feel better, less depression,
feeling less tired, she was able to do more things and had a more positive
outlook on life.
That is why God
put our family through this, and that is why I can, “I didn’t know it was for
good, but God did.”
