A friend shared with me a nice story which illustrates a Biblical principle about an attribute of God which I want to share with you in turn.
Long, long ago, there lived a king whose most faithful and trusted servant would say to him in the face of adverse and even tragic circumstances that God is good. He is perfect in His ways and He never makes mistakes.
One day, the king went hunting with his servant and he was attacked by a wild animal. His servant came to the rescue and was able to drive the beast away. But not before the king was badly bruised, with one of his fingers bitten off. The king complained that if God was so good, why would He allow him to be attacked by such a ferocious beast and his finger bitten off. His servant could only say that it may be difficult to understand but that shouldn’t change the fact that He is good and perfect in His ways and that He never makes mistakes.
The king was furious and in his rage, he had his servant imprisoned for not coming to his aid early enough and further insulting him with his remarks.
On another day, the king was on one of his hunting trips again when he came upon a group of savages and was captured by them. This group engaged in human sacrifices and so when the time came, he was led to the altar where he was to be sacrificed. But upon closer scrutiny, the savages found out that the king had a missing finger. This stopped the whole procedure cause according to their tradition, they could not sacrifice an imperfect offering to their god. He was therefore subsequently released.
When the king got back to his kingdom, the news spread to his subjects and his servant who had been jailed reminded the king that God indeed is wise and never makes mistakes. He allowed the beast to bite his finger off so that he could be spared the tragedy of becoming a human sacrifice of his captors.
The king countered by saying that if God indeed was wise and never makes mistakes, then why did he allow him to be put in jail? The servant answered, “If God didn’t allow me to be put in jail, I would have gone hunting with you. And when the savages found they could not sacrifice you due to your missing finger, they would have taken me to be sacrificed in your place”.
A songwriter penned the following words:
“God is too wise to be mistaken,
He is too good to be unkind;
So when you don’t see His hand,
And don’t understand His plan,
Trust His heart.”
The preceding materials are expressing in a variety of ways the words of the apostle Paul when he said: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God; to them that are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28.
—Simeon Rosete, Jr.