Murphy’s Law: Version 1-If anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible timing.
Version 2:If there are two or more ways to do something , and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
Murphy’s Law is a universally recognized phenomenon in this world.
As John Steinbeck said in his 1937 novella, The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men,
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
In our own strength, using our own planning we seek to control situations, account for contigencies…and then something unimagineably unforeseen happens.
Then comes the numbing realization that ultimately we are not in control.
But there is One by whom no circumstance is either unforeseen nor uncontrollable.
“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
The Bible is full of accounts of how “bad things” happened-as our own testimonies may be-
but the Lord turned them around for the good of those who love Him.
His ultimate purposes which cannot be thwarted.
Satan is neither omniscient nor omnipresent and even while he seeks steal, kill and destroy,
God always has the final say, His eyes and ears are always inclined to those who seek after Him with all their hearts.
So remember, beloved, to keep your eyes fixed on Him.
No matter how things might look at this moment.
God doesn’t just have a good plan, He has the best plan.
He doesnt have to disclose the entirety up front, He lights the path for us one step at a time-as we seek Him.
All we need to do is trust in Him with all our hearts, and lean not on our own understanding
(which is usually absent when we are in the middle of a trial anyways).
It is later, when we come out of the other side,
after the trial and fires of afflication that we will begin to understand.
God promises that He will never leave us or forsake us.
Trust God’s plan!