To Glorify God

It is our chief purpose in life.

Many of life’s perplexing situations are much easier to accept when trusting that God has a purpose.

During an interview with Sarah Palin when asked regarding her son Trig, who has Down’s Syndrome, she indicated that the entire family has learned so much from having him in their lives these few months. She demonstrated that the family has already been blessed by seeing the good in the child with whom God had blessed them.

The next day while out in the garden picking camellias I came across a flower with an obvious “mistake’ in the flower. It had a white stripe on a pink flower. All the other flowers on the bush of a solid color and this one flower uniquely blemished. Its’ blemish giving it a beauty all its own. I immediately thought of little Trig. Folks would say, “blemished”…a mistake in the DNA…yet beautiful, special, the only one on the bush like this.

Last week, while at the ACEA competition, a dear lady introduced herself to me and my parents. She has been a faithful mother, her son is now 27 years old. He has autism. She shared with us that many years ago the following passage in John gave her such peace regarding the life of her son. Her testimony really touched me and brought me back to my earlier ponderings.
John 9:2-3
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

God’s definition of good and ours sometimes greatly differs. The pain and suffering we would deem terrible is the tool so often used to make manifest the power and might of God.
Psalm 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

II Cor 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I Peter 4:16, 19
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.