[Discoveries] 05-27-08 Discovery -- Psalm 34:2

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*... let the afflicted hear and rejoice. -- Psalm 34:2*/

There are three kinds of trials. Those that bring us directly into the 
everlasting presence of God (martyrdom, death). Those where we 
experience God's intervention immediately. And those where we have to wait.

Sometimes all we know in a trial is pain; we can't find God anywhere. 
Only later do we come back to those painful places and discover that God 
was there all along.


>From God's point of view, He would never allow pain in our lives if it 

didn't accomplish some good that we will both agree is far greater than 
the pain we experienced (Romans 8:18).

What is that good?

I remember one day in September almost 27 years ago that I went to a 
church meeting with a group of friends. We were all college students, 
and as we got back to campus our large group scattered until there were 
only two of us, Kim Rohrer and Dwight Clough. I meant to say good night 
and go back to my dorm room, but something kept me there, under the arch 
in Chicago's Moody Bible Institute.

This girl, this young woman, Kim, started telling me the story of her 
life -- her year in the Philadelphia ghetto, her trip to Israel, her 
experiences as a lifeguard. All of a sudden I realized that I was 
spellbound.

I don't remember how the conversation ended or how I got back to my dorm 
room. I just remember lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling with a 
smile on my face that wouldn't go away.

I had discovered the love of my life.

Now I already knew Kim. I met her a year earlier. I even went grocery 
shopping with her once. But somehow that evening I discovered someone I 
never knew was there.

So why can the afflicted rejoice? Because we are about to discover 
Someone we never knew was there.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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