Overcoming Traumatic Events
I had a friend die at a young age several years ago. I began to ask the question, why did You have to take someone so young? Then God directed me to I Kings 14:12-13 “Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.”
God was preparing to judge the house of Jeroboam. This child of Jeroboam was taken to keep him from the judgment that was going to befall his father’s house. God was being merciful to him. God’s mercy is sometimes seen by us as a catastrophe.
Job found a truth in chapter 19:6 “Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.”
It is God that allowed the trauma in Job’s life.
Acknowledging this takes power away from your enemy.
Those who have traumatized you have no power over you if you acknowledge that God is in control of all things that happen in your life.
You may remember Romans 8:28 which says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
The Scripture does not tell us that all things that happen to those who love God will be good. Many things that happen are bad. God did not promise to keep all bad things from happening to us, but He did promise that if we will allow Him to work His will in our lives, that all things good and bad would work together for good.
I believe that the two verses prior to this verse give us an indication of the fact that bad things happen in life when they say, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
God is saying that when you cannot understand why things have happened in your life, when you do not even know how to pray, He knows what you need.
Traumatic events bring us to an end of our abilities. They bring us to the place that we have to turn to God, when there are no other options. It is at those times that God says, turn to me and I will make these bad things in life work together for good. Your enemy has power over you as long as you believe that they control what they did to you. When you change that belief and acknowledge that they could do nothing to you except what God allowed, then they are powerless. No longer do you need to fear them. No longer do they have the power; now all things are as they should be. All power belongs to God. He is in control and we are yielded to His authority.
