"It Doesn't Have to Feel Good to Be Good"
This title is a statement of Lysa Terkeurst from First 5, a quickie digital interactive devotional. Ho, how I can identify with this statement. I certainly did not come to that realization during the painful process though. Lysa's statement is truly one of the faith's stances that one has to take if he/she is going to be victorious in the faith walk that God has assigned us. During my painful faith walk, my thought about "good" meant more of a "happily ever after". How is that for foolish? I wrestled with God...my wrestle not His, over Romans 8:28 and the word, good. In the process of it being good, I felt robbed, felt like a mere pawn on the chessboard of life, and felt unloved. I could not reconcile good with all of the pain that I felt and even the TRUTHS that I did know from Scripture. As I hunkered down in the Word, and began to be more desperate for a deepening relationship with Father God, my heart could begin to see the good whether I