Monday, December 13, 2010

Hamlet II

This morning another quotation from Hamlet.

“Nothing is either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.”

The judgment as to whether a matter is good or bad is rarely objective. It often hinges on how we are personally affected.

As Christians, have you not found that the worst possible events can work out to the best possible conclusions given time for God’s purpose to process.

One of my favorite statements in scripture is made by Joseph in the last chapter of Genesis. He says to his brothers, who had sold him as a slave into Egypt many years before: “You thought evil against me, but God meant it to me for good.”

If 2010 was not a good year for you, take heart, the book is still being written. Joseph’s observation on the perfect program of God’s will was given in the last chapter, from Pharaoh’s palace, not in chapter 40, from Pharaoh’s prison.

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