The story is told of a cowboy who one day applied for an insurance policy. The insurance agent asked him, Have you ever had any accidents? After a moments pause, the cowboy responded, Nope, but a bronc did kick in two of my ribs last summer, and a couple of years ago, a rattlesnake bit me on the ankle.<\/p>\n
Wouldnt you call those accidents? replied the puzzled agent. Naw, the cowboy said, they did it on purpose!<\/p>\n
Unlike the cowboy in the above story, there are no accidents in the lives of Gods children. In Genesis 37:12-28, we read about how Joseph was thrown into a pit by his brothers, and then sold as a slave to the Ishmaelites.<\/p>\n
This was a great test of Josephs faith, because from the human standpoint, the actions of his brothers appeared to be a tragic case of injustice, not a providential means of blessing.<\/p>\n
However, later on in his life, Joseph learned that God meant it for good<\/em><\/strong> (Genesis 50:20).<\/p>\n When we pass through deep waters of trial and disappointment (and we will), we need to understand that these apparent misfortunes are not accidents.<\/p>\n The Lord allows such things for the purpose of blessing us (Romans 8:28).<\/p>\n Therefore, let us patiently trust Him (Proverbs 3:5-6), and then praise Him for our victorious outcome! (Romans 8:31-39; cf. John 16:33; 1 John 5:4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The story is told of a cowboy who one day applied for an insurance policy. The insurance agent asked him, Have you ever had any accidents? After a moments pause, the cowboy responded, Nope, but a bronc did kick in two of my ribs last summer, and a couple of years ago, a rattlesnake bit … Continue reading “Praise The Lord For Our Victorious Outcome! – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}