Measuring Misfortune

"…what we perceive as a blessing may in fact bring disaster, and what we perceive as disaster will ultimately hold some blessing. We can never fully predict the fortune or misfortune which change and chaos bring to our lives. Events that appear to be misfortunes may ultimately present hidden opportunities."
—David Irvine, Communicator,Simple Living in a Complex World

I often wonder why we tend to believe that we fully understand God’s plan for us. We assume that we know whether something is a blessing or a disaster, but we will never truly know. It is hard to put complete faith into God and know He will not lead you astray, although we may not understand His methods, we should trust them fully and completely.

We as people want to behold the miracles of life and be apart of those miracles. The same way, in Jesus’ time, people wanted to behold his miracles. Jesus wanted the same thing. He would have loved nothing more than to live a life filled with miraculous healings and teaching parables. He didn’t’ want to die on the cross, He even asked His Father to allow His crucifixion to pass. Yet, we as a people want to behold the miracles without carrying the cross. The most beautiful thing Jesus did was die for us, it was His greatest miracle. We should be more willing to carry our own crosses in life more often. As the quote above states, we never know if the crosses we bear will be the miracles that we bring tomorrow.