Out on the lawn a gang of crows was tearing up a section of the school lawn really tearing it up. In a few minutes this pack of excavators made a section of lawn about five feet by six feet look like it had been worked with a rototiller. The crows had discovered a colony of grubs. Lunch was on the table.
That lawn would have been in jeopardy if the grubs had not been discovered and been eaten. The crows messed up the grass but actually saved the lawn.
Sometimes God does that with us. He allows certain things to happen to us that we think are devastating but He does so because in His infinite wisdom He knows something in our life has to change or we are heading for something even worse. Peter, who saw a lot of bad things happen wrote, “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” I Peter 1: 6-7.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 2, 2002
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