Amazing

A Friend of mine gave me a lot of books recently. She gave them to me not only for my love of reading or that we've been friends forever, but so she could watch and hear the excitement I get from them. She told me I was like a kid in Christmas morning. She's so sweet to do this kind thing for me and I treasure her and the many books she gave me. I have completed a few of them already.

I have realized that God uses people and books and His Word to teach us lessons. He uses it all to teach us things we need to know in the moment we are in. Here's an example......I spent some days reading through the book of Job in the Bible. This book fascinated me in that Job was a righteous man yet God allowed Satan to do to him as he wanted.....just all without taking his life.

Now....in reading one of the books my Friend gave me, the same point was used, in that even though satan was an angel....he was and still is under Gods authority. He still needs to ask permission before he does anything to us. He can't just go and wreck our lives because he has free will to do so. Our holy God must allow it. This is amazing to me because Ive heard people say that satan was attacking their family, because things were rough at the time. I didn't like that statement because I felt it was giving the devil glory in recognizing what he was doing. I however looked at "bad times" another way. I feel God uses ANyThING to get our attention. Whatever it takes for us to learn what we need to and then give Him his due glory through the tough time and after it. He wants us to know he is still there for us and we can call in him to help us at any time. Yes.... he allows satan to mess with our comfortable lives, but only to have us draw closer to Him in the midst of it all. How amazing is that?

I've always known satan is out there. In my past, I went through a period of rebellion against God and satan had full power over my life. God allowed him to take full control of my pathetic life and make something beautiful out of it. Those are years I will never get back and regret my rebellion, but without that time, I wouldn't be where Im at today. God really does use evil for good. I'm living proof of that. He uses what he needs to to teach us how powerful he is and nothing satan does to us is out of his full control. I'm in such awe of my God to love me that much.  <3