you don’t know what God is making while you’re aching you don’t know what God is making while you’re aching you don’t know what God is making while you’re crying you don’t know what God is making while you’re lonely you don’t know what God is making while you’re suffering but I declare unto you he is making something you may feel dislocated you may feel dislodged you can’t always see what the master is doing only when we look back then we see that God had a plan but all we had was pain crushing is not Prejudice it comes to
every person’s life we all experience seasons of death and Desperation dreams best relationships crumble businesses fall and it seems like you’re going to die whether that business is a big corporate office bringing in billions of dollars reporting to his shareholders or whether it’s a mom-and-pop shop a dry cleaning service or a cupcake shop you go through changes it is so crushing that gives you wisdom you cannot buy wisdom in a story you cannot get it in a jar it is a crushing that gives you wisdom it is Nelson Mandela
wrongfully in prison shut up in a prison in the middle of an island for years never knowing that while he was an inmate having food shoved to him like a dog to eat off the ground that he would be the president of South Africa and if he had not endured the prison he wouldn’t make the presidency it is the prison that created the presidency that is what crushing he is it is the ability to endure the wisdom of the witness for the Bitner knows exactly where to crush you I know Nelson Mandela would not have picked such an unsavory place to be
president most presidents don’t go to jail to be president they go to Yale to be president Vanessa went to jail that in spite of the suffering you will still get there that God has a watch and it never loses time and he knows exactly when to raise you and exactly when to bring you out and when the stage is set and the time is right nobody can hold you down when God gets ready to raise you up but the problem with the seed is that it can’t think so it doesn’t understand the suffering and it doesn’t understand the pain and
it can’t hear me and sometimes the hardest part about being a preacher is that you want so much for the people to get it and sometimes the people who need it the most they really don’t really hear you bet you’re on course when you’re off course that you’re planted when you thought you were buried that the only way up is to go down that everything in the kingdom is backwards that if you exalt yourself he’ll abase if you abase yourself he’ll exalt you death is necessary to create life Jesus says I come that you might have
