Good For you

I was talking the other day with my wife and as we were talking about life and the issues that we are going through (looking for a job being the main one) I made the comment I wonder what God is preparing us for. Then as we continued to talk we wondered is God preparing us for anything else at all or is the big thing that God is doing actually just us?

What we thought was that people are what God cares most about, it is people, their lives and most importantly their characters, that is most significant to God.  So as we are made stronger and honed through the trials of life it may not be some great future event that God is preparing us for, it might just be that what he is doing is making us better people, we may just be his great work. 

It is interesting how we can justifiy the hard times if they will be used in some great way in the future.  We can go through the really tough experiences as long as we will see some great outcomes in the future.  Romans tells us that All things work for good for those who love Jesus.  The question has always been, what is good?  We take it to mean some great good in the furutre, that because I have been through this or that then God will be able to use us later on.  However, it might be that the good is just that that goodness is developed within us, that our character becomes more good through the tough experiences of life.

So if your are going through tough times or have been through them look at what they are doing to you, how can they make your character better what can these times do to make you a better person, what good can come out in your life? It may be that what God is doing is making you, his possession, better just because you are worth the investment!