Devotional

Steps of Faith for the Deaf

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Hello,
Years ago, —one of the deaf ladies from my church, —–had on a “button-pin” that said—-“God has a better idea.”

I have thought of that saying—–many times since then. At the time that I saw that “button” on her shirt, —-there had been a fire at their house. It was a sad and scary time.

I thought, Wow! What a testimony! In the middle of a very bad—scary thing, she still is wearing “God has a better idea!”

We all have sad—-bad—-things happen to us. We are tempted to get angry with God and say, “ What are you doing?” “Why did You let this happen?”

We know that we live in a sinful world. Bad things that other people do—hurt us, too.

We know—-that we do not always—-make the best choices—-and then bad things happen.

Maybe things in our life—are like—-what happened to Joseph in the Bible.
His brothers were jealous of him,—-they took him and sold him—to some men.
The men took Joseph to Egypt —-and sold him to be a slave/servant.

Wow! What a family! To be sold as a slave by your brothers!

Many years later,—–Joseph told his brothers —–you meant to hurt me—-but God used it for good. Genesis 50:2, Genesis 45:5, 8

Do you remember the story of the Tower of Babel? The people were so proud. They were going to build a tower that reached to heaven. They said, “Let us make a name for ourselves, so we will not be scattered all over.”

They were planning to build a big city,—- they would be in control. They would powerful! They had great plans of what they were going to do.

But God saw them. God had a different idea. He had told them to go and have families and fill the earth.
But they were going to stay in one place and be powerful and famous and do as they wanted.

God could have zapped them all and killed them. God could have zapped the tower and knocked it down. But God did something —–something none of us would think of —– He made them—–all begin to talk in different languages. Genesis chp. 11

They could not understand each other! The ones who could understand each other—-made one group,——others—–formed other groups. The groups finally moved away from each other.

And so they filled the earth with families——like God told them.

What an idea! Change their language! God has more ideas than we could think of. God has better ideas ——-than we could ever think of.

If you have a problem—-God has an idea of how to fix it. If you do not know what to do——God can give you an idea in your mind —- so you know what to do.

Trust God ——-even when bad things happen to you. Trust Him that He will use it to work out good for you.

Trust God to show you what you should do —–when you have a problem.

Good-bye for now. I’ll write again.                          Sincerely, Joyce Webb