Daily Devotions

How do you look at the problems that come your way?
We read in 1 Peter 5:10, “May the God of all grace, who called us tonHis eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”
Problems are often given to us by God to provide us greater opportunities. As God’s children, we need to learn how to look for the possibilities in our problems. God’s people have always worked this way. An entire section of Scripture, called the “prison epistles,” was written while the apostle Paul was incarcerated in a Roman jail cell. The last book of the Bible, Revelation was written by the apostle John while he was exiled on the isle of Patmos. It was in prison that John Bunyan saw the great allegory that would later become the immortal Pilgrim’s Progress. So you see, sometimes good things come from bad times.
Joseph learned from his prison experience that he was not forgotten by God. As a matter of fact, God used a relationship formed while Joseph was in prison to accomplish His perfect plan.
Charles Colson once said, “That his lowest times as a believer have been far more fulfilling than all his glory in the White House when he was an unbeliever.” During the lonely days in prison, he learned to know God in a personal way. Sometimes loneliness and difficulties are necessary in our lives, because the problems we experience are the means God often uses to provide opportunities for us.
So, today, as you face problems think of them as opportunities that God sends your way.