God can rewrite our personal history stained by tragedy and failure.
He can even rewrite our families history or for that matter, an entire nation. A people who might have known the horrors of war or have been destroyed by social and spiritual ills can be brought back to life again. This is truly a testament to the power of God to transform lives!
It is easy to look at the loose ends of our lives and draw conclusions.
This is all that is left of my life. I’m stuck and this will never change or why even try when it will just fail.
Remember Job was severely afflicted having his land destroyed, his children killed, and health ruined by boils. He could have easily believed this was his end. Even his close friends wrote him off and his wife encouraged him to curse God.
But the Lord rewrote his story, “The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first (Job 42:12a).
We must be patient letting God take the rough drafts of our story and rewrite them. It might mean a painful editing of our limited version of events in exchange for His conclusion. He is after all the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).
Ecclesiastes 7:8 reads, “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit” (KJV).
We must be patient in spirit. Our endings are God's beginning to a whole new chapter in our lives!
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