He Whom You Love is Sick

John 11:3 The sisters therefore sent to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick."

This is a very hard passage of scripture wrap your mind around, because of the way that it clashes with everything we expect from a loving God. He whom You love just filed for bankruptcy. She whom you love just got served divorce papers. There are just some things that will never seem right to be in the same sentence with, "he whom You love." Yet there it is, front and center in the Gospel of John. I mean its not like God tried the hide the fact some of His best, get dealt the worst hands in life. So why is it so hard for us to accept, why does it seem so incongruous with what we think we know of God?

I think it is because we can never equate something good coming out of something bad. Jesus Himself said in Luke 6:44 ..."For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush." No men don't, but what applies to us doesn't apply to God, God can gather figs from thorns or grapes from a briar bush if He so chooses. Perhaps that is the reason in Romans 10 it says, "...with the heart man believes," there are some things better left to the heart than to the mind. My heart tells me that the One who saved me from drugs and everything else I was involved in that was destroying my life, He will not turn around and give me a poison apple. So when your mind is vexed with life's circumstances, and you can't answer all the questions the devil is throwing at you, remind yourself all the things you have learned of Him, love believes all things. That will help you keep your fire burning when life is trying to throw water on it.  Blessings