What God taught me this week about loss and setback

[jennifer_bloom]

The Book of Isaiah 60 Says:

17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.

What I get out of this verse is that when one thing that is meant to be yours is taken from you through no fault of your own, God will give you a better and superior replacement free of charge that you can cherish and enjoy, so what was originally meant as bad news for you, becomes good news for you instead.

Like I was admitted into grad school for a program I hated but due to my lack of connections and desperation for professional upgrades, I stuck it out until the professor changed his mind about selecting me as his student.

However, I later realized my grades were so high from my desperation to please the professor that I now qualified for another grad program in a different subject I found easier and more interesting than the program I got kicked out of.

And I was originally upset when my boyfriend dumped me but now I know I can find a nicer and smarter and happier and healthier guy. When I the lost my former female best friend from grade school I realized there were plenty of ladies from church that I could talk to who shared my faith and belief in God.

With the loss of my job due to CoVid I realized I can make more than double my former income in a new career as a professional author and writer if not quintuple or more than that.

[Leonharted]

That verse reminds me of Enoch.

l And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden -for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west -There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead. And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, ‘What things are these which I have seen in secret?’ And he said unto me: ‘All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.’ And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: ‘Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.

And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,

The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,

And the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,

All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One

As wax: before the fire,

And like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains],

And they shall become powerless before his feet.

And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,

Either by gold or by silver,

And none be able to escape.

And there shall be no iron for war,

Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.

Bronze shall be of no service,

And tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,

And lead shall not be desired.

And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the earth,

When the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.’