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Wednesday April 9, 2025
God’s convenient agent for good
“…in creating persons like Himself, God created a freedom of choice, and evil is that alternative false choice of Lucifer’s seeping down to us. Then God’s perfect meaning is that while there is the reaping of the harvest of false choices, He always has the perfect plan by which apparent losses are really gains, just as Satan’s Calvary became God’s resurrection of millions of Satan’s captives. For when Pilate said to Jesus, ‘Don’t You know I have power to crucify or release You?’ Jesus answered, ‘Thou couldest have no power at all against Me except it were given thee from above.’ From above? We would surely have said, ‘from beneath!’ (John 19:10-11), but ultimately ‘beneath-power’ is actually from above.
So now seeing this foundation true of the devil himself being really God’s convenient agent for good, we learn to see through our plentiful negative situations, and thus help others to do the same. By the exercise of authoritative faith, we persistently and boldly affirm that God means just that, and my only sin is not believing that He is my God and Father of love when it appears, and indeed is, an operation of the devil himself. Then as I believe against all appearances, and not lightly or easily, I have the inner calm of being able to accept an evil thing as from God. This is where I am moving on to the royal authority of faith of the Hebrews 11:32-34 type. What was in earlier childhood and young man stage a simple faith in my daily walk with Jesus now becomes the formidable weapon of faith by which I am ‘more than conqueror’ in all situations; a conqueror in a stable walk on rocky ground, and more than conqueror by knowing how to apply the conquest to bringing good out of evil, supply out of need, advance out of retreat.”
Taken from: To All Believers…It’s as Simple as This
By Norman Grubb
Page 42
