Are you happy that Micah died?
My daughter Kinsley’s question caught us a bit off guard. Of course we are not happy that Micah died, we responded. But we have seen so many blessings over the past 16 years. Our daughter has picked up on how we have preached to ourselves the blessings of suffering.
We have been awakened to a spiritual world that would have otherwise been insulated from us in our own self-absorption. We have learned the blessings of mutually-supporting relationships with fellow grieving parents. We have learned the need for dependence on a good and sovereign God. We are awakened to the needs of those around us.
God calls us to trust in him, even when we can “only see through a glass dimly.” (1 Corinthians 13:12). As His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways, so we cannot know all of the purposes he is accomplishing through our suffering. If we thought we oversaw our own existence, we would have the difficulty of determining what sufferings we would allow ourselves to endure
About the faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendego, Tim Keller wrote, “Their confidence was actually in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them….Their confidence was in God himself, not in some agenda that they wanted God to promote.”
We told that Kinsely that we don’t have to determine what types of sufferings are good for us; God does that for us. Though we continue to see His purposes only through a dark glass, we look forward to seeing Him, face to face, when we can be happy in the presence of Jesus.
Happy 16th Homegoing, Micah.
A family event had me thinking of Micah yesterday, so today I decided to look him up. Perhaps the Spirit nudged me to look him up. Thank you for sharing your faith and your insights.
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