“We know that all things work together for good to those who love God” (Romans 8:28 )

Another way of saying this is, “the best thing that can happen to the saint is what God causes or allows”. The saint, by faith, voluntarily submits everything in his life to the Lordship of Christ. He’s does this because he’s “created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). So when trouble comes, he doesn’t meet it the way he did before. He submits to the Lordship of Christ in all things.

Nominal Christians ask God to help them escape trials, but real Christians ask God to show them how to walk though trials in submission to Christ. Over time, the saint learns from experience, to discern good and evil (Hebrews 5:12), and is refined by this sanctification process. “You have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory ... you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,  receiving the end of your faith — the salvation of your souls” (1 Peter 1:6-9).

After a lifetime of submitting to the Lordship of Christ, you’ll be able to honestly say, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:11-13).

"Say not my soul, 'From whence can God relieve my care? Remember that Omnipotence has servants everywhere. His method is sublime, His heart profoundly kind, God never is before His time, and never is behind.'"

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