3 Signs God Is About to Turn What Was Meant for Evil Into Good for You

2. If God Is Exposing the Sins of Others Against You to Strip Away Negative People in Your Life, This Is God Turning Evil for Your Good

People often don’t know that they have a deadly disease until that disease starts forming some negative symptoms in that person’s body. Ironically, the diseases that hide themselves the longest are often the ones that do the most damage because the person did not even know they had this disease and thus they were not able to start treating it sooner. Early detection is crucial if you hope to survive a deadly disease.

Likewise, early detection of someone evil in your life is crucial as well if you hope to minimize the damage they will cause you. We can’t know people’s hearts; all we can do is observe their actions. Shady people who desire to sin against us, however, do their best to hide their sins as long as possible so they can do the most damage.

1 Corinthians 5:11 says, “But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.” Proverbs 14:7 also states, “Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.”

How can you leave a fool if you don’t know that person is a fool? How can you avoid associating with someone who says they are a Christian but is living in sin if you are unaware of their sinful actions?

While it might be very painful when God finally exposes what someone has been doing against you in secret, in actuality this is God sparing you of the greater amount of pain that could have happened if this evil was not exposed. God turns evil into good when he shows us the truth about someone so we can either reconcile with them if they repent or so we can get them out of our lives and live free from the evil they were causing.