{"id":41090,"date":"2026-07-28T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41090"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:31:30","slug":"26-0729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0729\/","title":{"rendered":"His Higher Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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No moment, event, or detail falls outside of God\u2019s supervision. God is the one who \u201ccauses his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous\u201d (Matthew 5:45 NIV).\u00a0He isn\u2019t making up this plan as he goes along. Daniel 5:21 (NKJV) says, \u201cThe most high God rules the kingdom of men, and sets over it whom he will.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if God is in charge, why does he permit challenges to come our way? Wouldn\u2019t an almighty God prevent them? Not if they serve his higher purpose. The ultimate example is the death of Christ on the cross. Everyone thought the life of Jesus was over. Jesus was dead and buried, but God raised Him from the dead. God took the crucifixion of Friday and turned it into the celebration of Sunday. Can he not do a similar reversal for you?<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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No moment, event, or detail falls outside of God\u2019s supervision. God is the one who \u201ccauses his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous\u201d (Matthew 5:45 NIV). He isn\u2019t making up this plan as he goes along. Daniel 5:21 (NKJV) says, \u201cThe most high God rules the kingdom of men, and sets over it whom he will.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if God is in charge, why does he permit challenges to come our way? Wouldn\u2019t an almighty God prevent them? Not if they serve his higher purpose. The ultimate example is the death of Christ on the cross. Everyone thought the life of Jesus was over. Jesus was dead and buried, but God raised Him from the dead. God took the crucifixion of Friday and turned it into the celebration of Sunday. Can he not do a similar reversal for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41093,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions\/41093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}