Everything in life can be
considered to have a purpose.
Nothing is a waste.
Even waste is not a waste.
Wait and see what God will do with it as we submit it to Him.
What was a waste can be converted
into a crowning glory by the Father...
Because of Jesus Christ, Who is our
Lord,
Through the power of the Holy Spirit.
It’s astoundingly encouraging for the many that have
seemingly wasted significant portions of their lives to know that God has a
plan to use those so-called wasted years. Indeed, what could have been
considered in other terms, a waste, is actually considered fuel for the journey
and the consummate reason for the call of God on our lives.
Seen this way, everything has a reason as
everything has a purpose.
We are destined to make much of that which has
caused us to become little. God can grow bigger what we have found has shrunk
us.
Wasting 20 years as an alcoholic, or wasting the
same length of time to pornography addiction; these can be transformed into a
requiem of testimony as to the power of God to inflect a meaning that gives us
hope and a future we can believe in.
Converting Waste into Glory for God
What an upside-down world we live in because of
God. He turns what is lamentable into something that is beautiful – if we turn
to him. From a wreck of a life there is created a walking story; an
encouragement for everyone on a similar journey to destruction.
What can be considered a waste is no waste at all.
God converts that which might cause us to consider
suicide into a hope-fuelled faith that understands a second chance reality;
that victory is foreseeable out of the jaws of defeat. And what can be lived
with meaning is no cliché. This is no joke.
When the reality of a converted life is experienced
there is the direct apportionment of praise and glory to God without a single
word having been spoken. Our lives are testimony of what God has done. Anyone
with eyes, and a heart for truth, can see this.
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Nothing of what we experience negatively is a waste
so far as God is concerned. Everything that can be considered a waste of time,
or a waste of life, can be turned into a requiem of beauty unto the praise and
glory of God.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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