Most people know the words 'all things work together for good' and stop there, which leaves the promise floating with nothing under it. It is not a standalone comfort. It sits at the head of a sentence that keeps going for two more verses, and those verses are the reason the promise can hold weight. Read the whole thing and a different picture appears: the good is not a happy ending Yahuah improvises out of your wreckage. It is an outcome he settled before there was a world, and the wreckage is one of the roads he uses to get you there.
Most people know the words 'all things work together for good' and stop there, which leaves the promise floating with nothing under it. It is not a standalone comfort. It sits at the head of a sentence that keeps going for two more verses, and those verses are the reason the promise can hold weight. Read the whole thing and a different picture appears: the good is not a happy ending Yahuah improvises out of your wreckage. It is an outcome he settled before there was a world, and the wreckage is one of the roads he uses to get you there.