Musing - How Can Everything Be FOR Good?

Hebraic Musing - How Can Everything Be FOR Good?

Or   The Good News about Bad News

 Surely he (the man who fears the Lord) will never be shaken;a righteous man will be remembered forever.  He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. Ps 112:6-7 NIV

Can you imagine coming home and telling you wife "Good news! I was fired from my job." Or the wife telling her closest neighbor friend "Good news! My husband just told me we are moving from Chicago to California." (Been there, done that) 

When our family moved away, torn away, from our Chicago friends and family, it was not an easy adjustment. However in only a few years we had many new friends and still had our family and friends in the Chicago area. Eight years after that we moved again to Belgium where we enjoyed the most exciting years of our life. However, my wife frequently claimed she would never have agreed to move to Europe if it weren't for the experience of moving to California.

I am drafting this 'musing' on the one year anniversary of the day my wife of 52 years left me to be with Yeshua HaMashiach. Yes, I experienced a season of grief, but then a high school sweetheart came into my life and life is good again, or great!

So what initially sounded like bad news became a blessing just a few years later. Therefore I have learned that "everything is FOR good."  That is not to say that everything IS good.

Jewish tradition teaches that we are supposed to be just as grateful for the bad stuff in our life as we are for the good things. But even when we have faith that things will turn out OK, when bad things happen, can we actually be thankful?[1]

Knowing that everything in our lives is a part of God's plan helps us celebrate the good with the bad.

Points to ponder

How many people do you know who lost their jobs,
only to land a better one?

Are you ready to throw a party and celebrate
the next time you receive bad news?

Shalom                                                                                    March 19, 2013

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd

Author “Hebraic Insights – 95 messages exploring the Hebrew Roots of Christian faith”

Author “Biblical Marriage” (to be published in June 2012)

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[1] Inspired by Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein’s The Good News about Bad News – March 10,2013