Grace Doesn't Offer You a Comfortable Life

10/5/2018

"God will interrupt your journey, devastate your dreams, He’ll plunder your plans, all because He knows that what He wants for you is better.

Grace doesn’t offer you a comfortable life, but rather things that are infinitely better, like complete forgiveness, progressive transformation and eternal deliverance.

The unexpected, in the hands of the Redeemer, is but another tool of His faithful, relentless, sovereign, intervening, unstoppable grace." —Paul David Tripp

Who here hasn't had their journey interrupted? How about the lost of a dream, or your plans dashed on the seawall of the unexpected?

Your journey, your dreams, your plans, interrupted, lost, dashed. Do you ever wonder why these things happen? Why did this happen to me?

But He promises to be faithful. He promises to never leave us and He promises the grace we need to become transformed into what He has called us to be.

Well, of course He does! His ways are far better than ours. We only see the little picture while He sees the big, developing story of our lives. We see the tip of the iceberg, He sees the whole big old thing! He has a journey planned for us far better than we could ever dream of or hope for. And it's true, He knows that what He wants for you is better than what you want for yourself. Repeat that to yourself. What He wants for me is far better than what I want for myself!

God never promised an easy, comfortable journey through this thing we call life.

Why do bad things happen to good people when all around us it seems like good things are happening to bad people? Do you even wonder if God knows what He's doing?