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God Is Good All the Time All the Time God Is Good
DEVOTIONAL
It has been six years since my husband and I immigrated to Alberta, Canada, with our two little darling daughters. As enthusiastic as immigration sounds, if it does not work the way we want it to, it could be depressing. Finding the right job had always been our most unmet need.
Under God's providence, I managed to get a job good enough for survival.
But my husband went through motions. He persistently kept applying for all the desirable jobs, but the outcome was barely positive. So, he took whatever positions were available to meet the needs of the family. Many times, we wanted to go back to India, where our hearts always is but we still held on, casting our cares on our Heavenly Father.
As life was going on for us at such pace, like an unpredictable lightning, the pandemic struck the world, putting many in spiritual, financial, medical, and emotional crisis. However, my husband surprisingly gets a call for a new job. Yes! Exactly the kind he had been waiting for all these years. When most people around us were losing their jobs, Manoj got his dream job!
What a timely blessing in the world's "untimeliness."
If we try to understand the vicissitudes of life with a generic humanistic view, be it mathematically logical or debatably reasonable, even the best approach in our own understanding, could still fail. This is because God works totally on a different paradigm. We are reminded that God's plans are always better than ours. Often, He works in ways that we do not understand.
Let us patiently trust God alone, no matter how bleak the situation.
Prayer: Father, we thank You for always staying close to us, even closer in difficult times. Much thankfulness for blessing us in our most needed moments, Amen.
Rupa Manoj
Administrative Assistant | Planned Giving & Trust Services
First published in Overcomers, edited by Vara Prasad Deepati and Esther Deepati, Oriental Watchman Publishing House, 2022
