And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him
(ROMANS 8:28).
"THERE is an African Proverb that says, "That which blinds the blind man also feeds him." Its literal meaning is that those who are blind are expected to beg to gain their daily food. FOR me, that proverb has a very precious spiritual application. Difficult things may come to us during our lifetime, and the world may see those things as being very destructive and cruel. IF however, those things are accepted as part of His sovereign will, then, because of the growth and depth we gain in the Lord Jesus, they WILL have an opposite effect!
The husband of a young Christian woman was shot as he fled from their mud house during border disputes in our area of West Africa. He had just completed one month's study in literacy training so that he would be able to read the New Testament in Red Bobo. JUST two days earlier, he had been baptized and had given public testimony that he was a new creature in Christ and was obeying His command to be baptized. WHAT a difficult thing for his family and those village church people to accept the death of this zealous new believer in Christ.
THREE months after his death, his wife attended one of our women's conferences. SHE told of God's sufficiency in her life and of the assurance she had that God loved her, would provide for her and never leave her comfortless!
What a testimony to all of us! Those "blinding" blows that may touch us will, in the hands of our loving Father, nurture and "feed" us and bring new life to those around us.
May God help us to always be fed and not just blinded by our trials and afflictions."
Barbara Sorenson
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