“In all
things God works for the good of those who love him.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
Novelist A. J. Cronin had been practicing as a physician
for almost ten years when he developed a gastric ulcer that required complete
rest. So, he went to a farm in the Scottish Highlands to recuperate.
He says,
“The first few days of leisure were pleasant enough, but soon the enforced
idleness of Fyne Farm became insufferable…I’d often, in the back of my mind,
nursed the vague illusion that I might write. I had actually thought out the
theme of a novel—the tragic record of a man’s egotism and bitter pride…Upstairs
in my cold, clean bedroom was a scrubbed deal table and a very hard chair.
Next morning I found myself in this chair facing a new
exercise book open on the table, slowly becoming aware that, short of Latin
prescriptions, I’d never composed a significant phrase in my entire life. It
was a discouraging thought, as I picked up my pen. Never mind, I began.” Even
though Cronin struggled to write five hundred words a day and ended up throwing
his first draft on the farm’s trash heap, he finished Hatter’s Castle.
The book was dramatized, translated into twenty-two
languages, and sold some five million copies. The world had lost a physician
but gained a novelist.
When God gives you a dream, sometimes the circumstances
required to fulfill it won’t be to your liking. In Joseph’s case it involved
betrayal and false imprisonment. But that’s what it took to get him to the
throne of Egypt.
So, ask God today, “What are You saying, or trying to show me,
in the middle of this situation?”
Source: God’s Little Devotional Book. (Colorado
Springs, CO: Honor Books, 2005). Page 93.
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