But God

But God

If you’ve lived as long as I have, you know this world is a cruel place.  You are visiting my website for a reason, and I hope that my post can point you to the answer.

You Seek Retribution

Most people hire divorce lawyers thinking they will heal their brokennes by exacting revenge on their ex.

But divorce lawyers aren’t weapons of mass destruction.

Divorce attorneys give legal advice about the ending of a marriage.  How the property is to be divided.  Where the children will go.  How much and how long support is paid.

This is all a divorce lawyer is hired to do.

However, most clients are seeking more.

What You Need is Love, Peace, Hope and Grace

They want love.  More than anything, divorce makes people feel unloved.  They are seeking peace in the midst of the storm.  Hope in the midst of darkness.  Grace for their failures.

I hope you can find some of that in my post.  I am going to share with you that no matter what happened to you, or what will happen to you, 2 words: But God.

But God

But God rights all wrongs.  It is the message of the cross.  Nothing, not even death, will stop our Savior.  And that is the hope that will bring you out of this darkness.  I call this the 50/20 rule.

“You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.”  Acts 3:15

^“When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.  But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he was seen by those  who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.”  Acts 13:29 -31

Read these amazing stories!

Joseph

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” Genesis 50:20

Joseph was one of Jacob’s twelve sons. His father loved him more than any of the others and gave him a beautiful colorful robe. (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is one of my favorite musicals!)

Brothers were so jealous of him, they trafficked and sold him into slavery!

But Joseph did not stay a slave, instead he rose to power, becoming the second to Pharaoh in charge of Egypt.

On his way up (as if he hadn’t suffered enough), an evil lady (Potiphar’s wife) falsely accused him of rape.  (She did this because he rejected her sexual advances.)

Joseph was thrown in prison, where he became respected for interpreting people’s dreams.

In prison, he interpreted an inmate’s dream, and this inmate later got out and remembered him and referred him to Pharaoh when he had a weird dream about 7 fat cows and 7 skinny cows.

Joseph’s ability to interpret Pharaoh’s dream (7 years of feast, followed by 7 years of famine) was what saved Egypt from the drought.

Fast forward many years, his mean brothers came to Egypt during the drought to beg for food (not knowing this was the little boy they abused and sold).

He tested them to make sure they’ve changed, and once he was satisfied, he revealed himself and welcomed them.

Whenever I feel persecuted, I reflect on this story because it teaches sooo many lessons.

1️⃣ Let God do the fighting! Joseph didn’t try and exact revenge on his persecutors. He relied on God and faithfully did his time as a slave, then prisoner.

2️⃣ He did not dwell in victimhood. He didn’t view himself as oppressed.

3️⃣ In this world, there will always be people who intend to harm you. Enemies. Exes. Competitors. Bullies. They are everywhere. But their intent will NEVER succeed in harm because God’s intent overrides everyone else’s. It’s God’s will that matters. Not theirs, and definitely not yours.

But God Bible Verses

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Psalm 73:26

My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine
forever.

Matthew 19:26

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” 

Romans 5:8

But God show his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to
shame the strong.

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.

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Thank you, readers, for visiting my website!  We are so lucky that we live in a country where all of us can talk about our faith without being persecuted.  I am thankful for resources like 2nd Vote.  Check it out!