"For we know that all things work together for good to them who love Him"

And we know that all things work together for good to them who love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. ~Romans 8:28

We think when we read that verse that things will work out the way we want. And when they don't we blame God. After all, He did say that things would work together for good to them who love Him.
 We start to think, "Did I love Him enough? Of course I did! It was Him that didn't care about me."
But we would be so very wrong.
God never promised to make things go our way. He promised that all things would turn out good. **His** good.
God's will for us is not always our own.
We cannot know the thoughts of Him. We don't know why bad things happen. But He does. He knows. 
 I believe that everything happens for a reason. Everything has a purpose. Even though we may never understand it. We have to trust Him to know the outcome. 
 He brings beauty out of the ashes.
He pieces together the broken. He can take even the most shattered of things and make something so amazing and so beautiful it is unimaginable.
 Just remember, He didn't promise things were going to be easy. But He did promise never to leave us not forsake us.
Now if only we could make that promise to Him, life could be pretty magical.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~Romans 8:35-39

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