What in the World Is God Doing

 

For God has made me fruitful

in the land of my affliction.

             Genesis 41 52

(Even in hardship,

    God redeems.

Even when we don't understand,

   God carries it to completion.

God is bringing about

   His greater good,

far beyond our comprehension,

far beyond our lives.

What in the world is God doing?

God is redeeming,

     not just the situation,

     but us.

God works in unexpected ways,

  even in what we do not see

                   yet.

Joseph had no idea

   what God was up to,

but he trusted Him

  through a whole slew of deep pits,

       injustices, false accusations,

       and jail time.

But in each hard experience,

    God equipped him

 for the now and the not yet,

       strength upon strength.

Just as God does in us.)

O LORD,

We stand in a land of affliction,

      or state of confusion,

or really hard circumstances,

but we can walk with You

   securely through them,

Help us to trust You in this.

Empower us

    to be a witness to others

that You are God.

Bring Your goodness and glory

         even to this.