Days of Adversity

The events of life can be unpredictable.  Consequently, the average person lives in a reactionary mode.  For Christ-followers however, scripture invites us to ponder or consider the work of God in the circumstances of day-to-day life.  As we will see in the words of King Solomon, the same God who creates our best days is the same God who creates our hardest days.

“Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?  In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him” (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14).  On our most difficult days, it is easy to lose sight of God and his faithfulness, yet this scripture tells us that God creates both the days of prosperity and the days of adversity.  It instructs us to be joyful in good days and be reflective in hard days.

How does one consider the work of God?  We consider His works when we remind ourselves of His promises.  This scripture assures us that just as God is sovereign in our days of prosperity, He is also sovereign in our days of adversity.  This means, either way you can trust the heart of God.

Alan Redpath who pastored the Moody Church in Chicago in the 1950’s once wrote, “There is nothing – no circumstance, no trouble, no testing – that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause my to fret – for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is! That is the rest of victory!”  Alan Redpath

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