ALL THINGS WORK FOR OUR GOOD

WEDNESDAY, 23RD AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  ALL THINGS WORK FOR OUR GOOD

MEMORIZE: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”  Romans 8:28 NIV

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 57:1-3 (NKJV)

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, Until these calamities have passed by. ² I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me. ³ He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. God shall send forth His mercy and his truth”

EXPOSITION:

The concurrence of all providences for the good of those that are Christ's, Ro 8:28. It might be objected that, notwithstanding all these privileges, we see believers compassed about with manifold afflictions; though the Spirit makes intercession for them, yet their troubles are continued. It is very true; but in this the Spirit's intercession is always effectual, that, however it goes with them, all this is working together for their good. Observe here. 

 

1. THE CHARACTER OF THE SAINTS, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THIS PRIVILEGE; they are here described by such properties as are common to all that are truly sanctified. 

(a) They love God. This includes all the out goings of the soul's affections towards God as the chief good and highest end. It is our love to God that makes every providence sweet, and therefore profitable. Those that love God make the best of all he does, and take all in good part. 

(b) They are the called according to his purpose, effectually called according to the eternal purpose. The call is effectual, not according to any merit or desert of ours, but according to God's own gracious purpose. 

 

2. THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SAINTS, THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM, that is, all the providences of God that concern them. All that God performs he performs for them, Psalm 57:2.  Their sins are not of his performing, therefore not intended here, though his permitting sin is made to work for their good, 2 Chronicles 32:31.  But all the providences of God are theirs--merciful providences, afflicting providences, personal, public. They are all for good; perhaps for temporal good, as Joseph's troubles; at least, for spiritual and eternal good. That is good for them which does their souls good. Either directly or indirectly, every providence has a tendency to the spiritual good of those that love God, breaking them off from sin, bringing them nearer to God, weaning them from the world, fitting them for heaven. Work together. They work, as physic works upon the body, various ways, according to the intention of the physician; but all for the patient's good. They work together, as several ingredients in a medicine concur to answer the intention. God hath set the one over against the other Ecclesiastes 7:14: a very singular, with a noun plural, denoting the harmony of Providence and its uniform designs, all the wheels as one wheel, Ezekiel 10:13. He worketh all things together for good; so some read it. It is not from any specific quality in the providences themselves, but from the power and grace of God working in, with, and by, these providences. All this we know--know it for a certainty, from the word of God, from our own experience, and from the experience of all the saints.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, open my eyes of faith to see you at work for my good in all I am passing through in life in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Lamentation 3 - 5.

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