It was Good

Over two months ago I got into some kind of poisonous weed. I assumed it was poison ivy at first but it was worse, like poison ivy on steroids. Of course I had prayer, LOTS of prayer. If you’ve never suffered from itch, burn, rash, fever, inflammation, pain, sleepless nights, then you can’t appreciate how a person with allergic reactions feel. Suffice it to say, I was miserable. It was a real battle on multiple levels. The girls were mystified asking, “How could God make something that can cause so much harm?” The question didn’t sit right with me but I couldn’t refute it; after all, I bore the repercussions of that plant in marks from chest to toe.

Then Mum, unaware of our cries, inadvertently set our curiosity straight with a statement in a prayer over me: “How dare you (devil) take something that God made and turn it into something like this!”

Huh, I thought. Why didn’t it occur to me until she said that that God made the plant but He didn’t inject the poison? Don’t get me wrong; I did NOT “credit” God with my suffering, but I couldn’t wrap my mind around why He’d make something so toxic — He didn’t. How do I know He didn’t? Because Genesis 1:31 says God saw everything that He made and it was good.

Check out these verses:

“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Matthew 19:4-6 is power-packed. It addresses three major issues: 1.gender: male and female; 2.marriage: a man leaves parents and becomes attached to his wife; and 3.divorce: let no one divide a man and his wife.

Further:

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 says children are both an inheritance and a reward.

This is what we get from a few mere verses: male and female — good. Marriage — good. Children — good. Yet what are we seeing? Fornication, adultery, abuse, abortion, confusion, divorce, and on and on. Why? We aren’t renewing our minds with the Bible, what God says is good and living according to that.

Let me give you an example: Just yesterday I was having a conversation with a woman who said, “Children get worse the older they get.” I disagree. My girls have risen up to assist me in all kinds of ways in all kinds of circumstances. They are such a blessing to me! And yet when we’d tell people we have daughters we’d get the “Ought-oh, look out!” to which Bob used to agree — until I set him straight. I asked him to show me where that comes from and why he felt the need to agree with that sentiment. He quit agreeing. That was a terrible worldview, not the Gospel. I wonder how much crap we’re absorbing because we aren’t holding our beliefs and ideologies to the Light of Christ and the fire of Holy Spirit. Oh, and by the way, the woman is receiving what she’s been professing concerning her children. Could we please quit crediting God with things He has not done and divide the Truth, which will set us free, from lies, and live according to that instead?

God saw all that He made and declared it good. Join me today in asking Him to illuminate those paths in which we may be wandering in darkness. And remember this: God — good; devil — bad. Have a blessed day!