Sallie had questions. She wanted to believe in God but had so many questions. She thought that when she could find the answers, she could then come to love God. But God doesn’t organise things like that. How can our finite minds understand everything about a finite God? Then Sallie caught covid, she was one of the very ill patients, was hositialized and very nearly died. As she slowly recovered she had time to think and to know that she would never know all the answers to her questions. She decided to just accept and give her life to God. As the saying goes ‘Let Go and let God.’ God was able to work through her illness and her acceptance.
Vivienne married and moved to a remote village where she knew no-one except her new family. There was no way the villagers were going to accept her and only referred to her as David’s (her husband) wife or Stewart’s (her father-in-law) daughter-in-law. He was an important man in the village. Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. ‘Oh Lord,’ she cried, ‘Aren’t I suffering enough? Then her neighbour who had also suffered from this disease invited her in for a cup of tea. The villagers, previously hostile, began to help her with all the things she couldn’t do. Suddenly she was accepted and became part of the village.
Our God is able to turn round bad things and use them for our and His good.