The “this” part doesn’t much matter. For us, it’s a stillborn child. For others, something else. And there are not easy answers. Or they aren’t as easy and as simple as I want them to be. But I am drawn to Piper’s words after he had a stillborn granddaughter.
This seems so preventable. By God and by man. Yes. So easy. But neither man nor God prevented this. Man, because he did not know it was happening. God, because he has his wise and loving reasons that we wait to learn with tears and trust.
And these words in Ephesians.
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.” (Ephesians 1:11)
The counsel of his will.
A thing I will never understand, nor should I be able to. I didn’t want my daughter to die, but I know that God is for his own glory more than he is for my own plans. He has received a lot of glory because of her death, and though that’s a deep angst in my heart, I do understand it. And I am for it too.