Prepare for God to Turn Your Disappointment Into a Divine Promise
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 can’t always see what the master is doing. Only when we look back, then we see that God had a plan. when all we had was pain. You know, the funniest thing to me is that poor people think that rich people don’t get crushed. >> They think that if they had money, they’d have everything. >> But crushing is the one thing in the world that you can count on to be totally unbiased.
>> It is not one bit prejudice. If you’re white, you get crushed. If you’re black, you get crushed. If you’re young, you get crushed. If you’re old, you get crushed. If you’re female, you get crushed. If you’re male, you get crushed. If you make a lot of money, you get crushed. If you can’t find a job, you get crushing. Is not prejudice.
It comes to every person’s life. We all experience seasons of death and desperation. Dreams dashed, 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 it shareholders, or whether it’s a mom and pop shop, a dry cleaning service, or a cupcake shop, you go through changes.
It is the crushing that gives you wisdom. >> You cannot buy wisdom in a store. You cannot get it in a jar. It is the 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. >> Wow. >> It is the prison that created the presidency. That is what crushing is. It is the ability to endure the wisdom of the vitner for the ventner knows exactly where to crush you. I know Nelson Mandela would not have picked such an unsaavory place to be president.
Most presidents don’t go to jail to be president. They go to Yale to be president. But not Nelson. Nelson went to jail and he still got there. You must believe 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.
