If Romans 8:28 applies "to them that love God," how does this apply to those abused children who haven't yet accepted Jesus as their Savior?
If a abused/molested is born again, are they to believe it was all for their good?
I know from reading the Bible, God's sovereignty is a complex. I'm just trying to make better sense as it applies to this question.
These are good questions. Me and the Lord had a conversation about these things and I know it was the Lord cuz I can't come up with what He said! He set this earth up under some divine rules which He will not violate. If an abused child who has not accepted Jesus as their savior yet then it would and could apply to them because Jesus knew them before they were in their mothers womb and the Lords words will not come back to Him void! Some seed that got planted in their mind somehow, will get watered by the Holy Spirit.
A bigger but related problem for the Lord's kingdom is...People who have a broken spirit and are unable to cry out to God for help. Easy to imagine...refugees who live in the war torn regions of earth. There is a (many) nice lady who live there but one day ISIS or whoever came through and murdered her entire family right in front of her eyes...and then gang raped her and burnt down what was her house...So now they wander up the road. Refugees, a broken spirit that has seen and felt so much misery that she could not call upon God if she wanted to.
I can not say that I can understand that honestly because I have never had to endure such tragedy or hardship. So I was taught that one can do intercessory prayer for them. For God to take a portion of that person's suffering and grief from them and to put it upon me for a day or two. And He said He will do this. I wind up having a crappy day where I don't feel good, but, a portion of grief is lifted off of the refugee and so makes it possible for them to have a good enough day (in spirit) to be receptive and look to the Lord for help. They only have to ask once and God will be on it, and save that soul!
There is divine rules set up about how this earth and man operates and so forth. Like you have not because you ask not, right? We have to ask for everything almost. And no matter what, the Lord wont break any of his own rules.
So I can't pretend to have all the answers and I myself don't get it yet all either. I still see through a glass darkly. But He was clear with me and told me, don't just pray for your family, or your friends or Brothers and Sisters...Pray for those refugees whom I know not. Pray for The President, pray for Obama and Hillary?! This is what I got out of that teaching. Took awhile, lol.
I'm not sure what yardstick is used to make it fair enough for the HS to descend on someone who has not called out to Him, But the Lord does do it very fair and righteously and holy. All this sort've scares me because I look around me my entire life and see so much misery, grief, and wrongness done to people...and apparently I have missed out on a lot of misery that others have gone through and I have not! So what is still before me in MY future?!