“All things work together for good”
So remember Uncle Billy from Frank Capra’s faith-filled Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life? The one who loved to commune with a raven, some rabbits and others of God’s creatures?
The one who drank a little too much and lost thousands of dollars when he misplaced the deposit for his family’s building & loan firm?
The one who was eccentric and single, but lovable and forgetful?
Don’t we all have a bit of Uncle Billy in each of us? Or maybe you don’t. Or maybe you think you don’t…
Billy Bailey was a perfect example of God’s principle of the following verse:
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
It’s hard to see it when it’s happening to you, just as Billy’s nephew, George Bailey, found it hard to see the goodness of God when the law, the bank examiner, and many others, were threatening him with penury, jail and ruin, due to the missing money (which he took the blame for, shielding Uncle Billy).
So George prays he’d never lived, and God grants his wish.
You probably recall the story: George sees how terrible life in Bedford Falls would have been if he’d never lived, and as a result, prays for his life back.
He is given his second wish, and witnesses an entire community come to his aid, with testimony, support, love… and thousands of dollars to fix the problem.
As the story closes, we see that because of Uncle Billy’s failure with the money, a terrible thing, George Bailey comes to know the love of Christ, and to see how important each human being really is.
So if you’re going through the muck, if you’re misbehaving, you might want to do a 180, but if you’re generally not, and the chips are down, if you call on God, He’ll bring something good out of it… not just for you, but perhaps for others, too.
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