This was something that I read in today’s devotion: from Lance Wallnau:

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After Joseph was betrayed he told his malicious brothers:

“What you meant for harm, God turned for good” (Genesis 50:20).

The Bible says, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) In everything is not FOR everything. “In” implies that the thing that happened may have had nothing to do with God. Still, God has power “to cause all things to work together for your good” (Romans 8:28)

By choosing to be thankful in spite of the situation you enthrone God OVER the situation and He works to make the outcome even more glorious for you. Thus “no weapon formed against you shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17). It does not always mean no weapon can reach you, but rather that God will so work in the situation that the weapon is reversed against the enemy and YOU PROSPER. Thus the weapon of persecution and jail was reversed in Paul, and Joseph’s lives so that in both cases the ever praising servant of God took over the prison and afterward got released! (Think about Paul and Silas singing in the Philippian jail.)

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I have been through a couple of tough situations recently. Friendships and relationships have been altered. Maybe it’s for good, we’ll see. But for now not so much. But I can choose to be thankful, no matter what. I have to believe that it will work out for me for good.

January has been awesome. February will bring its blessings and challenges. God didn’t bring me here for no reason.