God Does Not Waste Anything
I have in recent years come to put into words a truth that I knew for many years before this from my own experience. That is, “God does not waste anything.” What I mean by this is that in our own evaluations of our actions, thoughts, experiences and cultural upbringing we tend to make harsh distinctions between what is good or bad, worth remembering and treasuring and that which we want to leave behind and forget. And we tend to also assume that God views our lives and our actions in the same way. Yet this is not so. The Almighty God perceives the totality of our lives, as individuals and together in local communities, within nations, and in the broad outworking of historical events. God is “no respecter of persons” (Romans 2:11)—seeing and judging us as we are and within the time-space historical time that God set us into. Whatever or whoever shaped or formed our view of what is real, true and beautiful is known by the Holy Spirit, and he can and does utilize that for our good...