Truth #19 from Lies Women Believe is God is more concerned about changing me and glorifying Himself than about solving my problems. If we don't recognize God's purposes and processes in our lives, we will become obsessed with finding a way out of our problems. The truth is, God does not exist to solve our problems. What matters most to Him is that every created being reflect His glory and is conformed to His image. Some of the problems that are most difficult for us are actually instruments He has designed to fulfill His ultimate purpose in our lives. How foolish and shortsighted it is to reject or resist problems that may be the very means He has designed to mold us into the image of His Son.
Romans 8:28 "and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son."
Keeping this kind of eternal perspective--of looking at how our daily problems affect our souls, not just our immediate comfort and happiness, is very difficult to remember. But God reassures us that our troubles here are preparing us for a glory we cannot imagine. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what us unseen is eternal." 2 Corinithians 4: 16-18
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