When Life Gives You Lemons

When Life Gives You Lemons....
          (make lemonade)
 I have heard that said so many times in my lifetime but, today that brought me to the Word. There are several scriptures this brings to mind but, today I am only going to focus on a few.
Lets start with "Genesis 50:20"...But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.(KJV)
We have all had things not go the way we planned . That is because we all have a free will and we all live here on earth together. I think of things like Jesus being crucified. satan wanted to distroy Jesus many times from His time of birth but, when He was finally on the cross and died  satan thought he had won. But, then there is the rest of the story. Jesus gave up His life to save  all of us from the penalty of our sins and when He arose He conquered death and hell so it no longer had a hold on us.
Or here is another thought, it may be trivial compared to what Jesus did but, maybe easier to understand. Have you ever had people harrass you or gossip about you or lie about you and though it hurt God carried you through, and then later on someone else is going through it and God uses you to help them? Without  you having gone through it first you could not have helped them see Jesus carrying their burden. And without God using your pain to minister to theirs  it could have turned a different way and led them completely away from God.
Ok, so here is another verse that comes to my mind. "Psalms 30:11"...You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,(NLT)
Have you ever noticed that when we loose a loved one and our grief is  all consuming, there is usually a new life born shortly after to bring your joy back. It isn't as if we have forgotten our loss but, the joy of a newlife  seems to cover our grief . Or say let's use another example. Have you ever lost a friend that you really thought the world of, due to lives changing or paths seperating and it grieved you so bad that you thought you'd never get over it? Then later on in another setting God brings a friend into your life that is so like you and  your traveling on the same path and it turns out to be a lifetime friendship.
Though you wonder ok, so how do these scriptures fit in with lemonade? We have all had things go wrong when we had big plans for things working out our way, but then something or someone comes along and changes it because of their plans or their ways, but then we say ok i will do something different and it works better than your original plan. Well God had the same plans and because He made us with a free will , we changed things and destroyed  the perfect communion we had with Him. So He sent Jesus down to carry our sins to the cross so that we could have our perfect communion with Him once again and it worked out so much better because when Jesus washes away our sins now we have become family to God and can live with Him for eternity.
May God bless you and keep you!