God is GOOD.

God is good. 

I can't help but start this post with that phrase, especially when I think of the last blog I wrote. 

God is so, so, SO good. All the time. Even when I don't understand what He is doing at all.

The last time I posted, I briefly mentioned a young lady whose brother had committed suicide. Later, as we were talking, I found out that almost a year ago to the day her sister was killed in a car accident, and her father was murdered when she was only a child. And then, yesterday, I received a text message saying she had been in an accident. As she had been standing waiting for the bus, a car had hit her and taken off. Miraculously, she escaped with only a dislocated shoulder and scraped up knee. Even so, my heart just sunk. How much more can this poor 19-year-old girl take?

Well, I quickly made plans to see her for supper last night. When I first greeted her and asked how she was doing, she smiled and said she was fine. And as I looked at her, I believed her. You could see it in her eyes. The last time I had seen her, you could just see the hopelessness and pain that she was facing. The sorrow and grief. The unforgiveness and anger that she had been harboring towards her brother. This time, it was all gone. When she smiled, it was genuine. There was joy. There was peace. This was a new woman. This was a woman who had found Jesus. 

As we talked, it became more and more evident that she had become a believer. And that she had completely given Him her sorrows, pain, and burdens. 

I still don't understand why she had to experience so much in so short a time. But Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds me that I don't need to understand (these verses seem to be coming up A LOT lately):

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Like I said, these verses have been coming up way too much recently - a continual reminder that I shouldn't try to figure out what God is up to...it's almost as if God is trying to teach me something here...

Anyways...

God is good. All the time.