For Everything God Allows...There Is a Reason

James 1:2-4King James Version (KJV)

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Dear Friends,

Contrary to the old cliche, "Life doesn't just happen."  God has a plan for our lives and for every thing, every situation, every circumstance... For everything God allows, there is a reason.

The job you didn't get and the one you did... a reason
The time you got up this morning and will lay down tonight...a reason
The family God has given you and its particular make up...a reason
For everything God allows, there is a reason

Thus saith the Lord:

2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.  - Ephesians 1:2-6King James Version (KJV)

 Further:

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

   -  Romans 8:28-29King James Version (KJV)

For everything God allows...there is a reason.

in Christ,

Sis. Stephanie