Iron Faith When It All Goes Wrong-Trust God.

 (Rom. 8:28) 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.  

Keep the conviction that God reigns over all the details of your life, from the greatest to the smallest. It is amazing that the most common means people use these days to solve the mystery of suffering never even occurred to Joseph or Job or Paul. These who suffered so for their testimony never once expressed any sense that God is limited in what He has control over. But that seems to be the first instinct in our day when tragedy strikes or injustice is done. “God couldn't have willed that sickness, or that explosion, or that wreck.” We create exemption clauses that we think protects God when hard things happen.
 
All through Joseph’s experiences, there is no indication that he followed this line of thinking. Instead, by example and by word, he held to the conviction that God reigns.  If link for video below does not show up view in your Browser or click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNamnkxzkA

Job put it like this in Job 12:13-16: "To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His. What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. If He holds back the waters, there is drought; if He lets them loose, they devastate the land. To Him belong strength and victory; both deceived and deceiver are His.
 
Rest here. Stay here. Joseph did. David did. Isaiah did. Daniel did. This is the place of comfort, endurance, and hope. This is the place Jesus has purchased for us while we are on this earth.

ACTION STEP:  Pray daily, "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven..." (Matthew 6:10) Let your disillusionment with people turn you to the goodness and faithfulness of the Lord. Throughout Joseph’s short but eventful life, he had learned this truth well: People will let you down, but God will never fail you. Isaiah 2:22 says, Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils; of what account is he? Which is Isaiah’s way of saying, “Why bank your hopes on a creature who can only live by taking one breath at a time? If he misses the next few breathes, he dies! Trust in God, who is the eternal breath from whom all our little breathes come.”
 
People are going to fail you, disappoint you, leave you hanging out to dry. Let that drive you to God. Jeremiah 17:5-8 shows us the difference between the person who puts his hope in what people can do and the person whose confidence is in what God can do. Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
 
"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
 
Learn to wait upon the Lord. Isaiah knew well this truth, and gave us these great words: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall soar on wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall run and not be faint (Isaiah 40:31). Joseph understood that God’s ways are not our ways. His timing is always perfect.