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Romans 8:28 -- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
The rain pounded the glass with a will to gain entrance to the storm-battered house -- horizontal bullets, frenzied by the wind. The window seemed to bend in its struggle to resist the lashing.
Streams of water fled to the corners of each window pane, transparent fingers beseeching ... what? To escape the wind? Or to find a way inside?
When God sends storms raging in our lives, our tendency is to put up the shutters, batten down the hatches and ride them out.
Like storm windows, we often resist efforts to pry into our inner selves. We prefer the invitations of a sunny day to the insistence of a storm -- even when both come from the same God.
Winds of adversity can be winds of opportunity.
Like farmers anxiously tending our crops, we may feel threatened to see a cloud of insects on the horizon -- locusts intent on devouring our crops! But if we stay our hand (and our pesticides) long enough, we may find they are honey bees, bent only on pollination.
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