Adversities Can Become Advantages

Have you had those times when you could say, “I just can’t see…,” meaning I can’t understand what to do, or say? In that hour things happen that we can’t understand. Then we must exercise faith in what is unseen. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”

It is then we can relate to Isaiah 50:10, “Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of His servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.”

Instant replay, “Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.”

Play that over and over on the soundtrack of your mind until you can repeat it in your sleep — or in your hours of sleepless agony.

Our sovereign Creator, the Lord God, made a choice to give human beings a free will. With that came another choice. A paraphrase of a statement by Augustine says it well: “God thought it better to bring good out of bad than not let the bad exist.”

God is not out to bring about bad things for us, but to bring the good out of the bad things that happen to us.

Consider that in light of Isaiah’s comment regarding walking in the dark where there is no light, some things can only be seen in the dark. For example, the darker the night the brighter the stars. The more difficult our circumstances the more precious is our Lord.  It is when we can’t see we must “trust in the name of the Lord, and rely on … God.”

Then our adversities become our advantages.