With the past in my rear view mirror, I headed on an adventure with God. I was headed out with Him on my first mission trip. Destination: Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Nerves began to get the best of me when I considered the reality that I was alone physically and headed to spend a week with complete strangers. It occurred to me they may want me to drink a special kool-aid. Panic became my passenger and I pulled off the highway at the nearest exit to regain my composure and top off my gas tank at the Meijer gas station. I followed the signs to the Meijer store and was able to do some shopping, but the gas station was nowhere in sight. My mind began to consider the possibility God was telling me to turn around and run for my life. Waves of anxiety crashed over me with hurricane force waves. Then, I raised my hands to the heavens and began to pray. Peace began to silence the fears. With a blessed assurance from above, I exclaimed, "It's all good" and right before my eyes appeared the gas station and a restaurant called SAUL GOOD. It's all good, God told me himself and He gave me a burning bush to remove any doubts.
The years before my trip were not all good, or so I thought. My 19 year marriage had come to a screeching halt and with it life as my family knew it. Everything seemed to be in ruins. Nothing had seemed good in those days except God. True, I would get a glimpse of goodness every now and then, but it was more of an exception than a rule. But that was when I was allowing the world to define good instead of God. Romans 8:28 says,"In all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes." The Greek word used for works together is the word synergi from which we get the word synergy. Things may not seem good, but it is. We may not see it this side of heaven, but we can rest on the promises of God that He will weave the thread of goodness into everything. Death, divorce, bankruptcy, illness, anger, adultery, job loss; all of it can and will be redeemed by God. We just have to trust Him and look to Him for a definition of goodness instead of Webster or the world. With God, good is redefined. To Him be the glory!
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