Isaiah 45:7 – “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.”
This verse reveals a challenging truth – God himself brings about both good and bad in our world. As Creator of all, He actively forms light and dark, prosperity and calamity.
Nothing occurs outside His sovereign will and purpose.
This hard reality grates against our human sense of fairness. We want good but not disaster to come from God’s hand.
Yet Scripture repeatedly affirms the Lord’s control over everything, working all things after the counsel of His will. His ways are higher than our limited perspective can grasp.
Trusting His Heart
Because God is perfectly good and wise, we can trust His heart even when we don’t understand His actions.
When hardship comes, we can anchor to the unshakable truth that the compassionate Lord brings about or allows all things for good purposes.
He is wise enough to use even my pain for my eternal joy and His glory.
God of Purpose
This verse denies life is a string of meaningless, random events. The sovereign Lord actively orders all things with purpose and design.
When calamity strikes, we are tempted to think God has abandoned us. But this passage insists He remains intimately involved, working to accomplish His loving intentions.
Nothing takes God by surprise or operates outside His intentional causation and allowance.
He allows difficult seasons into our lives not to harm but refine us. We can fully trust His heart and timing even in difficulties.
All Things
The God who forms light and creates darkness knows what He is doing. He continues actively crafting each circumstance to fashion His people into Christ’s image and bring about His intended results.
Because He is sovereign, we can take refuge in the promise that God causes all things to work for the good of those who love Him.
Romans 8:2
Cries for Mercy
Like Job, we long for days of prosperity, not disaster! This verse proclaims God Himself authors both outcomes.
When hardship comes, we can appeal to the Lord in repentance and faith, asking Him to relent and restore blessings, health and peace.
Our God is loving and responsive when His people cry out for mercy and grace.
Come Quickly, Lord Jesus!
Ultimately, we await the return of Christ to fully destroy evil and suffering and usher in everlasting joy. Though today we sometimes groan, the day is coming when God will create un-shadowed light forever.
Our tears will be wiped away and His sovereign purposes completed to His glory. Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
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