Pastor Bruce’s blog

I received an email today from a friend of ours in Romania, Pastor Stefi Micliuc.  He has been someone we have supported for many years and leads a great local church in Tirgu Mores.  I realize that doesn’t mean a lot to many of you, but take it from those of us who know him, Stefi is a sincere Christian leader and a good guy, a husband and father.  Stefi wrote to let me know that their oldest son, Luci, was taken to a local hospital with a congenital problem with the blood vessels in his brain.  Luci is having a hard time seeing, is feeling weak and sick and the prognosis is unknown.  Please pray for this young man and his family!

But really, doesn’t it make you think twice when you see Christian people run into difficult problems?  I mean afterall, shouldn’t knowing God result in His protection from all that?  A woman that Robin and I know has had tragedy and difficulty in her life as of late.  She asked us the same kind of question: does God really protect us?  Actually, the answer is a resounding “yes!”.  It’s not that God prevents difficulty.  We generally bring that upon ourselves while exercising whatever free will He has given us as a race.  God overcomes difficulty.  He restrains evil and difficulty so that it’s never what it could be.  And then to His people He promises to work it all out so that in the end it becomes good.  For us and for His purposes. 

So back to Luci and Stefi and their family.  Will God work this painful difficulty out so that in the end it becomes good?  Absolutely.  I don’t know how, and neither do they, but it will work out for good.  God is the One Who will make sure of that.  Pray for those in the middle of difficulties and watch what He will do when He writes the end of the story.  PB 

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