Change is inevitable and adversity is unavoidable. But, we possess agency – that is the ability to choose how we respond to these things.  While we are certainly all shaped by our circumstances, we needn’t allow these things to define us.  We are all more than the sum of our experiences.  We are more than what we’ve been through.  We are more than our trials and challenges.  This is God’s grace to us.

We grow, we learn, and we are changed by what we go through, but God’s grace is also at work and able to transform our experiences so that what is apparently destructive may become mysteriously constructive.  God is able, when we yield to grace, to not only grow us but to get the glory out of everything that we endure and encounter.  This means that no matter what stage we are at on the journey, or what chapter we are on in our story, we are not at the end, and God can turn things around.  God can take even what people intend as evil and make it work out for our good and for the good of others! (Genesis 50:20)

Don’t take my word for it, though.  Ask Joseph, or Hannah, ask Paul or Silas, ask Jesus!  

Choose today to trust God.  While circumstances may have wearied you, don’t you dare doubt that God is yet at work, and God’s grace, living and active, is sufficient for you!  (2 Cor. 12:9)

Hang in there.  Lean on those who love you.  This is not your end.  This is not your destination.  God is not finished.  This too shall pass.  This is God’s grace for you! God’s grace is enough! 

Do you believe this?

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 8:28-30

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam