When God Closes A Door

Have you ever heard the hit musical Joseph the Dreamer? I like it very much because it's a story of a young man who suffered most terrible tragedies in life yet came out of them glorious in the end. Joseph was his father Jacob's favorite son. His other brothers got jealous of him because of the special relationship he enjoyed with his Dad. They sold him as slave. But he eventually became an administrator in Egypt. When famine struck Canaan his brothers set out for prosperous Egypt to buy grains. Joseph had the perfect chance to take his revenge. Yet he did not. He forgave his brothers and even asked that they celebrate with him because they were reunited as a family and that everything (even the bad experiences) was all in God's plan.

Now, there is a song in that musical that I often sing when I feel that the world is closing on me. The song is entitled "When God closes a door, He opens a window." And this has been true to my experiences. When something or someone is taken away from me, God makes sure that I get new and better ones in exchange for what was taken from me. When He takes away, He replenishes with something new and something better. Therefore I need not be afraid but just believe in Him.

Son of the Prodigal