During 2020, when the world was in pandemonium, and things were confusing, a phrase sprung up inside of me. I mentioned it to my husband, and it registered in his heart too. We then shared the phrase with our children. Soon after we heard them repeating it to those around them: “Something good is about to happen.” 

That year for Christmas we had sweatshirts made with that quote across the front. You’ll catch any one of us wearing that sweatshirt on any given day. As a family, we now live by that motto. 

Something good is about to happen. 

Living by that motto doesn’t excuse us from having hard things come our way and having to live by faith. Everyone faces trials and challenges on the daily. Hard things are part of life. 

To us, “something good is about to happen”  simply means we know we’re going to get through them. Not only are we going to get through them, we believe something good is going to happen as a result of those trials.

After all, the Bible does tell us in the book of Romans that “in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28 NIV). There’s another verse in Psalms that tells us everything we do as godly people will turn out well (Psalm 1:3 NIRV). 

These powerful Scriptures are written to us. Our job isn’t to make them happen. Our job is to believe the One who said them is faithful to do them. 

It’s easy for us to believe that God will work hard circumstances into good for others. If something unfortunate happens to a friend, we are quick to believe that God can turn their situation around. Yet, when it comes to ourselves, we don’t step into faith as easily. 

Maybe we doubt God’s ability to make bad things good because we know ourselves and we think we don’t deserve it. But His goodness has never been based on whether we deserve it. Jesus paid the price that we deserve so we can have access to God’s goodness. We may think it’s selfish to even ask the Lord for something like that. Yet, Jesus Himself told us His Father would give us anything we ask for in His name (John 16:23 NIRV). 

Perhaps it’s hard to believe that God wants something good to happen for you because it seems like your past has been full of hurt, brokenness, or abuse. I have a friend who grew up in an extremely abusive home. She simply thought good things were for other people, not her. Today she would tell you that she was wrong. When she began to believe that God was good, she encountered His love and realized He is for her; He changed her entire world around. 

Still, I can understand all of those feelings. I’ve definitely had them and still do at times. But then I remind myself that God is also my Father. He’s good. Any good father out there wants the best for his children. A good father would take any pain from his child, he’d mend any heartache, he’d help him out of a bind. That’s what good dads do. They take away the pain, they don’t cause it. 

The other day, I overheard my husband, Darian, talking to a construction worker about the crawl space under a home. They both had some pretty terrible stories of what they’d found in those spaces. Towards the end of that conversation, Darian mentioned how our oldest son needed work done in the crawl space of his last two houses, so he’d strapped on his old clothes, got on his hands and knees, and army-crawled into the mud and muck of those houses. Why? Darian is a good dad. He’s not afraid of mud and muck. Plus he possesses the power, knowledge, and ability to fix the problem.

Mud and muck happen in everyone’s life. The Bible refers to them as tests and trials. Only God really knows what the crawl space of our lives looks like and He isn’t intimidated by it. He’s a good Dad. He possesses all the power, knowledge, and ability to fix all of the unfortunate things in our lives. Whenever we have a trial, challenge, or something hard come our way, let’s just consider it another thing in the crawl space of life. Give it to the Lord. He’ll clean that up too. The Bible is filled with promises and answers. He is always faithful. 

When we, like my friend, truly encounter the love of our good, good Father, we begin to realize good things are for us as well. We gain a new outlook on life. It’s not that God changed — we change! He’s always been good. Jesus beautifully described our Heavenly Father when He said, “So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him” (Matthew 7:11 NLT).

When we realize the Lord is our good Father, we are not shaken by anything that happens around us or to us. 

If you’re facing a situation that seems extra muddy or mucky in your life today, talk to your Heavenly Father about it. He is faithful. He fights our battles for us. He is our Healer, Provider, Friend, and Comforter. He makes all things turn out well. He’s cleaned people’s mud and muck up all the way through the Bible, and He still does it today. He will do it for you. 

Get ready, friend, because something good is about to happen.

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