Victim of God’s purpose

This exposition of how God uses people to get His purposes accomplished on earth could well be the message you just required to settle your heart that is troubled by many why questions.
In many instances of resolving personal and spiritual conflicts the explanation is the cure. People, especially the godly ones, always want to know why they are suffering when they have done nothing wrong. The general reason why we go through what seems to be undeserved and unjustified sufferings is that we suffer as victims of God’s purposes. God must use people to affect people.
And God has ordained that His most holy people go through the worst suffering in order to have His greatest purposes accomplished. You are a victim of God’s purposes if you are suffering for Christ’s sake and not suffering for wrongdoing. God wants to accomplish a specific purpose but He can only to do it through you. If He has chosen you then discomfort, persecution and ridicule will be your lot till His purpose has been accomplished.
Joseph the son of Jacob was the best example of suffering as a victim of God’s purposes. The Genesis account presents the life of Joseph as one fraught with unjust suffering and unfair treatment.
From his early childhood until he was 30 years old Joseph’s life was one of trial after trial, trouble after trouble. Every reader of Joseph’s account will not fail to sympathise with him because of his misfortunes. Even Joseph himself must have asked himself the “why me” question at the blow of every wind of tragedy. But there is a repeated phrase accompanying his recurrent problems that gives us a clue about God being behind all his trials and sufferings. The phrase is, “But God was with Him.” However, it is this very phrase that causes much stir among the readers. If God was with him then why did He allow Joseph to continue suffering? The answer is simple: He allowed him to continue suffering until His purpose was accomplished.
Some things have to be endured to the end if gold is to come out of the kiln.
Perhaps you are not sure of God’s purpose in the suffering of Joseph. Joseph’s life served two major purposes in the divine scheme of things.
 First, God used him in the preservation and perpetuation of the Abrahamic covenant. God had to strategically position Joseph as prime minister in Egypt to ensure His people would not be wiped out by a seven -year long famine. Joseph’s election meant he would be tested and tried in all sides.
And it was this suffering as a result of the testing and trying of God that we see as misfortune, tragedy and injustice. Second, Joseph’s life was a shadow or a type of Christ, the holy child of God, who would suffer unjustly for the purpose of our salvation.
The problem with us is that we do not know what God is doing with our lives when we are suffering. 
We become self-focused and negative-minded. To some extent we are justified in doing so because it is difficult to understand God when looking ahead but when we look back we see how the loving hand of God was leading us.
Joseph, then prime minister, having now understood the purposes of God forgave his jealous brothers with much ease.
When we look at the ministry of suffering from God’s perspective we will rejoice in suffering and count ourselves worthy to suffer shame for Christ’s sake. Instead of asking the ‘why me’ question, ask God for strength to endure your suffering without committing sin as Job did. Learn not to judge others harshly; they might not be sinful people but just victims of God’s glorious purposes.
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