God Will Get You Through

February 1

Preparing a Place

God’s purpose from all eternity is to prepare a family to indwell the kingdom of God. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11).

God’s plotting for our good. In all the setbacks, He is ordaining the best for our future. Every event of our day is designed to draw us toward our God and our destiny. When people junk you in the pit (wrong you in some way), God can use it for good. When family members sell you out (betray you), God will recycle the pain. Falsely accused? Utterly abandoned? You may stumble but you will not fall. You will get through this!

Not because you are strong, but because God is. Not because you are big, but because God is. Not because you’re good, but because God is. He has a place prepared for you!
-- Max Lucado (adapted from You’ll Get Through This)


Max Lucado has an amazing way with words. He uses the tools of his craft to formulate ideas that are designed to lift his reader above his circumstances into the Lord’s realm of Hope. The Bible, the Holy Word of our Living God does the same thing. In Romans 8:28, Paul states this truth very succinctly. Here he says, “All things work together for good to those who love the Lord, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

We who believe and love Jesus are indeed called according to His purpose which is “that all men might be saved, and come to a knowledge of the truth,” I Timothy 2:4. The heart of God weeps at the lostness of those who know Him not.

When men revile Jesus, when men terrorize the people of ‘the Book,’ when men cast aspersions upon those who do good work—even to the point of murdering them—the Almighty God weeps for their lost souls.

And what of those who suffer at the hand of unbelievers? What of those who are slain for their faith in Christ? Our God will take all the evil they have endured and turn it around for the good He has promised. If they don’t see their deliverance here—like the giants of the faith described in Hebrews 11 who were not rescued from their circumstances, they can still affirm as did believers of old, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” Hebrews 11:1.


They can still know that they know that they know as Max Lucado reminds us, God will get them through; God has prepared a place for them—and for all who trust in the name that is above all names, for all who trust in the name of Jesus.