From Bad To Worse!
"My problems go from bad to worse.
Oh, save me
from them all!"
Psalm 25: 17
If you feel your problems are going from bad to worse, you have lots of company in the Bible. Joseph went from keeping
his father’s sheep, to a cistern, to slavery, and on to an Egyptian prison (Genesis 37–39).
In the book of Ruth, Naomi’s situation deteriorated until she called herself Mara, meaning “bitter”
(Ruth 1:20).
We all know how Job’s problems multiplied (Job 1–2).
Apostle
Paul’s third missionary journey led him to arrested in Jerusalem,
stalled for two years in Caesarea, placed aboard a ship headed
in a hurricane, shipwrecked, and bitten by a viper (Acts 26–28).
Trials and suffering are the common lot of all humanity,
and sometimes things seem to go from bad to worse in
our lives. Don’t give up! Look again at all the examples
above.
Joseph ended up as prime minister of Egypt, Naomi became a
beloved grandmother, Job received twice what he had lost, and
Paul’s troubles led to the writing of Ephesians, Colossians,
Philippians, and Philemon—the Prison Epistles.
Commit your troubles to the
Lord.
Trust Him. He will save you from
them all.
"We are
all faced with a series of great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
impossible situations."
Charles Swindoll
