Principle To Live By

This morning I want to pass on a devotional that really spoke to my heart. Instead of trying to comment on it, I'll just quote the devotional in its entirety.

"We must shape the powerful and transforming thought in our minds that the goodness and faithfulness of God follow hard on our heels to turn every tragedy into a triumph and every loss into a gain. It is easy to affirm this as we look back--the challenge is to affirm it with equal conviction as we look ahead.
If you can get hold of this truth and absorb it into your life as a working principle, then it will transform your attitude toward everything. Never again will you be at the mercy of circumstances. In Acts 5:40-41 we read an astonishing statement: 'After they called the apostles and had flogged them...Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing...' Rejoicing? Over injustice? How is it possible to rejoice over an injustice? Because they believed with David, that the last word was not with men, but with God--"goodness and faithfulness" would follow them and turn the situation to their advantage. When you can rejoice over injustice, you are indomitable.
Another verse from Acts that always intrigues me reads thus: 'The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God...' (Acts 7:9). That phrase 'but God,' is at the end of every injustice--He has the last word! And just as God used the injustice done to Joseph to feed the Egyptian people and his own family, so He transforms every sorrow, every bereavement, every tragedy. Christianity may not explain everything, but it most certainly transforms everything."
----written by Selwyn Hughes, Everyday With Jesus Bible, A One Year Reading Bible, p.295