GOD KNOWS BEST

Our Father knows what's best for us

So why should we complain?

We always want the sunshine,

Bet HE knows there must be rain.

We love the sound of laughter

And the merriment of cheer,

But our hearts would lose their

Tenderness if we never shed a tear.

Our Father tests us often

With suffering and with sorrow,

He tests us not to punish us,

But to help us meet tomorrow.

For growing trees are strengthened

When they withstand the storm,

And the sharp cut of the chisel

Gives the marble grace and form.

God never hurts us needlessly;

And HE never wastes our pain,

For every loss HE sends to us,

Is following by rich gain.

And when we count the blessings

That GOD has so freely sent,

We will find no cause for murmuring

and no time to lament....

For Our Father loves HIS children,

and to HIM all things are plain.

So HE never sends us pleasure

When the soul's deep need is pain.

Whenever we are troubled,

And when everything goes wrong

It is GOD working in us,

To make our spirit strong.

This is a very simple and easy to understand poem sent to me by e-mail. Makes you think about how much God is involved with those who he loves. Lots of times when we think God is not there and we are going through hard times, he is actually helping us. Reminds me of the poem “Footprints”.

Consider these verses:

Rev. 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. ⁹Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. ¹²

Bro. James DiLiberto