We may lose a righteous man to death and ponder why God could not have prevented it. But Isaiah 57:1 comforts us - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
God may take away a righteous man at an unexpected time. Though to man, it may seem God has let us down at such times, to God it may be necessary for the good of that one to be called to glory at such a time. God is wiser than man , and even His foolishness wiser than the wisdom of man.
God has good plans for us that work for our good. But fortunately and unfortunately it's the good and bad that work for our good. In the Kingdom of God, all things ( good and bad) work for our good. We ought to love God in spite of whatever happens to us. We must still have faith in Him whether in life and death. Whether God shows up or not, we must still serve Him. For our walk is by faith and not by sight. And we must love God not 'BECAUSE OF ' but 'IN SPITE OF.'
Apostle Paul best describes all I have shared today in Romans 8 -
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
AMEN AND AMEN!!!!!
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