Against All Odds

My ACL journey

What my surgeon declared.

How God healed me.

The Bible is full of people who had the odds stacked against them.

1. Moses

leading the people of Israel out of slavery.

2. Joseph

going from a slave to a prisoner to prime minister.

3. Gideon

defeating the Midianites with an army of 300.

4. David

defeating Goliath.

5. Elijah

overcoming the 450 prophets of Baal.

6. Esther

saving her people from genocide.

7. Daniel

surviving the lions den.

8. Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego

not having even a hair lost from being thrown in the fiery furnace.

God permits what He hates to achieve what He loves!

Some of the best things about our lives how come from the worst things we’ve gone through.

Romans 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.”

Other:

Faithlife Study Bible (Why a Good God Allows Suffering)

Talk to Job in the middle of his story—10 children dead, his body covered with excruciating boils, feeling as if God abandoned him, and friends haranguing him. Job even says: “Why did I not die at birth?” (Job 3:11).

Job 23:10 “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.”

Job 42:5 “I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.”

Joseph:

Faithlife Study Bible Why a Good God Allows Suffering

God sovereignly worked so that the moral evil they committed—and the evils that resulted—were dramatically reversed to achieve His good purposes.