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There’s something divine happening that you simply cannot see. Something bigger than you and beyond your current circumstances. Here’s exactly what is happening, and it’s happening RIGHT NOW: God is taking every intended harm against you, and he’s turning it around with the intention of using it for good.

That’s absolutely guaranteed. Certain. No doubt about it. God is taking every intended harm against you, and he’s turning it around with the intention of using it for good! Can you believe that?

You have an enemy in this life – a despiser of your soul – a schemer of your demise. The powers of Hell are against you and their intentions for you are to kill you, steal from you and destroy you. That’s Hell’s plan. Satan has actively sent his demons to roam this earth and ruin your days. That’s truth.

But never, ever forget this – God sits high upon his throne with his eye on you. Yes, you. God sees you. He has never once taken his gaze away from you. He sees everything that has ever happened to you and he says HE CAN FULFILL HIS INTENTIONS OF GOOD FOR YOU AND THROUGH YOU. Nothing the enemy has done to you has cancelled God’s good plans for you.

At the end of Joseph’s life, his brothers come to him in fear of retaliation for their sin against him. For 22 years they had caused him such extreme hardship, and it was no accident. They intended him harm. They meant to destroy him. But their intended harm was not beyond the power of God to turn it around and use it for good.

And this is what Joseph knew – He knew the mysteries of God were unfolding on his hardest days and sweetest days alike. He knew God could be trusted. He knew God is faithful. He knew God’s good plans could not be cancelled by the years of struggle. And this is how Joseph stands before the people who hurt him most and says in Genesis 50:20, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”

The harm Joseph’s brothers intended against him was used by God to place him in Egypt where the only food would be stockpiled during a 7 year famine. The selling of Joseph into slavery would lead him to become a leader in the palace of the King. Now, Joseph sits in the palace with complete control of the only food in the land, and he saves the brothers who sold him. Everything was turned around and used for good.

That’s what our God does! Our God takes the intended harm against us and turns it around and uses it for the good of not only us, but the lives of many. It’s now bigger than just you. It’s about the other lives you will now impact. And that’s the mystery of God. The mystery of how God works in the unseen to bring his divine plans to our lives, and unfold that mystery to be so much bigger than just us.

Lysa Terkurst says, “When things don’t make sense, leave room for the mystery of God.”

Leave room for the mystery of God. What does that mean to you?

Does that mean you stop trying to control it, fix it or figure it out? Yes! Leave room for the mystery of God.

Does that mean you surrender this mess to God and let him have his way in you? Yes! Leave room for the mystery of God.

Does that mean you trust God to get it right, even when it doesn’t look or feel right? Yes! Leave room for the mystery of God.

Now maybe you’re sitting in a pit of despair right now and you don’t know how you will ever get out of this. The mystery is all you see. Just an unsettling darkness of uncertainty. Remember this – darkness isn’t even a thing, my sister. You don’t turn on darkness, so you can’t turn off darkness. You can only turn on light. Darkness is an absence of light. Darkness is a void. The moment you turn on the light, the void is filled.

Psalm 119:105, “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” You have the ability to turn on the light, my friend. You don’t have to sit in this void. God’s word is your