Romans 8:28

Romans 8:28 (nkjv)

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.

What a verse! It's a basic witness question. Do you have a relationship with Jesus Christ? We can see this in action long before it was written. About 1500 years before this was written, we see King David being anointed by Samuel, to be the next King of Israel. God then sends a vexing spirit to Saul. Saul, in turn, seeks a musician to calm his spirit. One of Saul's servants mentions that he has heard David playing the harp. David is now in the palace, watching how kingly duties happen.

Here, you can trace the engineering by God.

God sent the vexing spirit and it would not be be difficult to imagine God making sure the servant saw David playing the harp, nor that God convinced David to play the harp at the same moment. All this is working together, so that the last son of a shepherd can be in the king's palace, giving the next king a view of kingship from the inside.

The next time we see David, he is at a war camp. A champion warrior, from the enemy camp, is challenging for any man in Israel to fight him, in a winner-take-all match. David volunteers. This champion of the enemy, standing at near ten feet tall, was probably a good three feet taller than David. But David's faith in God had already been groomed when he tended sheep. He fought off lions and bears as a shepherd, and, in the scope of things, a bear or lion probably looked more fierce than a ten foot man. David knocks Goliath out with just one sling of a stone in the forehead. David is then a hero in front of the people, who give him support for when he later would be king. One could make the assumption that God placed the enemy there just so David could be a champion on display.

In both of these examples, events were orchestrated to David's advantage. In the second circumstance, David's encounters with wild animals gave him the confidence to stand against Goliath, and become a champion to the people.

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.