GOD TRANSFORMS

TRAGEDIES IN VICTORIES
By: Jorge Villavicencio

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 GOD TRANSFORMS TRAGEDIES
IN VICTORIES
By: Jorge Villavicencio

BIBLICAL TEXT: Genesis 45: 5-8

“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years
hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there
shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.8So
now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father
to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of
Egypt”.

Romans 8: 28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”.
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INTRODUCTION

There was an old farmer in a village, who had a very poor farm and an old horse,
to cultivate his fields. One day, the horse escapes to the mountains. The farmer's
neighbors began to murmur later on his loss, but one week later, the horse
returned bringing with him a flock of wild horses. Then their neighbors
congratulated the farmer for his good luck.

When the farmer's son tried to tame one of those wild horses, he fell down and
broke his leg. Everybody considered this as another apparent tragedy. And the
neighbors began again to murmur about this misfortune.

However some weeks later, the army came in to the town and all the young ones
that were in good conditions were recruited. When they saw the farmer's son
with the broken leg, they left him alone.

In other words, tragedies can become victories. God, as a divine alchemist

specializes in taking the negative things, the tragedies of our lives to transform
them in big victories and blessings.

This is why the popular wisdom says: “There is not a bad thing that doesn’t bring
a good one!

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HOW DOES GOD TRANSFORM TRAGEDIES IN VICTORIES?

1. JOSÉPH’S TRAGEDY.

The history of Genesis 45, reveals us how Joseph suffered a series of such
tragedies as being sold as slave by his siblings to some merchants, later on he
was falsely accused by the a government official’s wife of sexual pursuit and he
was wrongly imprisoned.

However God took these tragedies in his powerful hands and He transformed
them in a tremendous victory since at the end of the story Joseph is crowned as
governor of the most powerful empire in his time and in this way he was able to
preserve for the posterity God’s people.

Vs. 8 "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made
me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the
land of Egypt”.

2. SAMARIA’S FAMINE TRAGEDY.

2 Kings 6 and 7 tell about the site of the city of Samaria by the Syrians. There
was such a famine in the city that women cooked their own children to feed
themselves.

Lamentations 4: 10"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own

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children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people”.

However God transforms that great tragedy in a great victory through the four
lepers that entered to the camp of the Syrians challenging the danger, such faith
demonstration makes God responds from his glory, sending angels that
frightened the Syrians who escaped leaving all their wealth thrown in the
outskirts of Samaria for the later benefit and salvation of the whole suffering
people.

3. SAMSON’S TRAGEDY.

This gladiator of the Old Testament was sent by to liberate Israel from the
hideous oppression that the Jews were suffering on the part of the Philistines.
God wanted to pay with violence the violence that the Philistines exercised on his
chosen people. Samson, endowed with the gift of power, was the instrument in
the divine hands who caused havocs to the aggressive Philistine people.

Unfortunately, Samson was imprisoned by the mistakes he made; lost his eyes
and he was subdued to do forced works; everything was a tragedy and
anguishes in his life. However God who is specialist in transforming tragedies and
anguishes in victories carried out the following:

Judges 16:30“And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed
himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the
people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than
they which he slew in his life”.

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 Let us notice that Samson in one day was able to eliminate more enemies than
those that he destroyed in all his life; because God is the specialist in
transforming an apparent tragedy in a victory.

4. JOB’S TRAGEDY.

Job was one of the most suffering ones in the whole Biblical history, however
God transformed his tragedy in a great victory, since all that he lost, was
restored twice as much, by God.

James 5: 11 "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful,
and of tender mercy.”

5. THE IMPRISONMENT DE PAUL

Philippians 1: 12“But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things

which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the
gospel”.

The worst thing that can happen to any person is to be put in jail.

However in the previous passage Paul writes down something strange, in those
two years that he was in Rome’s jail; Neron imperial’s guardians heard the
gospel.
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The apostle manifests in verse 14 that the prison instead of braking the
preaching of the gospel generated a renovated zeal in his pupils to speak the
Word of God without fears, with the rising victory of the evangelism.

On the other hand God transformed the tragedy of Paul's imprisonment in a

proliferation of literary works. If Paul had not been in jail we would not probably
have the jewels of half of the books of the New Testament.