Last year, I had a phone conversation in the stairwell of FAR with a former small group leader about this whole ’sovereignty of God’ thing and different events going on my life.  I was talking all about God’s plan and that things always happen for a purpose.

And I wanted to know that purpose so badly.  I had already written here so much of the thought process:  Bad thing happens; God uses bad thing for something good.  I wanted to know the good thing right away.

The more we talked about it, though, the more apparent it became that this phase in life I was going through was not about me knowing.  Some of it was about me believing that sometime, somehow, it will be good… even if I never figure out why.  It was a faith deally.

The funny thing, however, is that as soon as I accepted the fact, God got to use my situation in someone else’s life, and I did see good come from the bad.  I’m pretty sure it doesn’t always work that way, but this time it was by the grace of God that I was blessed with a piece of the plan.

But overall, knowing God’s plan is just trusting:  Unquestionably in received actions; and fullheartedly in God’s character.