your scars are beautiful to God (2)

Are you ashamed of scars that remind you of your past? A broken marriage? An attempted suicide? A wrong decision? A costly mistake? An unexpected illness? A painful loss? Do you know that God can turn your ugly wounds into beautiful scars? Do you know that God can turn your pain into purpose, your heartache into hope?

As you read this 2nd portion of the Book Review on "Your Scars Are Beautiful To God", I pray that you will find comfort in the "Father of compassion and the God of all comfort" and in turn, you will bring comfort to others (2 Cor 1:3-4).

Book Review (by Belinda Elliott of CBN.com)

When Bad Things Happen
Author : Sharon Jaynes

We will probably never understand some of the things that happen to us in life. When approached with the question of why God allows pain in our lives, Jaynes says she usually refers to something she once heard Dr. James Dobson say. “He said that for us to try to understand God’s ways is like an amoeba trying to understand how the human body works. We just can’t do it,” Jaynes says. “And that is something that we have to come to grips with.”

It is during our times of struggle that we find out what we really believe about God. A tragedy in our lives often leads us to a crisis of belief, Jaynes says. “I think that it’s very easy to believe in God when life is good,” she says. “But when life is not good, then that’s when we really decide if we believe it.”

She tells the story of Wendy, a young woman who was raped. “She was very angry at God because she had been a good girl,” Jaynes explains, “and she thought that if you were good, then bad things would not happen.” Wendy was left with a choice to make.

In the midst of her pain, Wendy had to decide between three options:

God was not powerful enough to stop what happened;
God was powerful enough, but simply didn’t care enough to stop what happened; or
God allowed it to happen and He has some greater purpose behind it.

After struggling for several years, Wendy decided God must have a purpose for what she endured, and she chose to release her pain to Him and trust Him with the outcome. It is a choice we all face when troubles hit our lives.

.........to be continued in Part (3)


nothing can separate us from the love of God,
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