Adapted from today’s young adults devotional by Charis Hillman:

“I have received such wonderful revelations from God.  So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me” -Paul (2 Cor. 12)

“The things that you’ve been walking through over the past few months are the very things that are going to bring you into the destiny that God has for you.”

How in the world could the things that torment me bring me into the promises of God?

On the hit TV series “House”, the title character got his limp because a doctor misdiagnosed him.  From that point forward, he was determined to not let it happen to anyone else.  His limp actually helped him walk into his destiny.

So it is with us.  God uses our circumstances to shape and form us into who He destined us to be.