And call upon me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you,and you will honor me.Psalm 50:15.
All of us face adversity in various forms and at different times.Life is difficult.
Adversity and its accompanying emotional pain comes in many forms.There may be the heartache of an unhappy marriage,or the disappointment of a miscarried pregnancy,or grief over a spiritually indifferent or rebellious child.All of these circumstances and score more contribute to the anxiety and emotional pain we all experience at various times and in varying degrees.
On a larger scale we read in our newspapers or see on the evening news instances of grief,and pain on a massive scale.there is war,terrorism,earthquakes,famine,racial injustice,murder,and exploitation occurring daily in various parts of the world.All this makes us wonder and ask,"where is God?"
Even when life seems to be going our way and our daily path seems pleasant and smooth,we do not know what the future hold."We do not know what a day may bring forth".Proverbs 27:1.
Do you have such a relationship with God and such a confidence in Him that you believe He is with you and in your adversity even though you do not see any evidence of His presence and His power?
Obeying God is worked out within well-defined boundaries of God's revealed will.Trusting God is worked out in an arena that has no boundaries.It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him.When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness.But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question his goodness.God views our distrust of Him as seriously as He views our disobedience.In order to trust God,we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith,not of sense.And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel(Romans 10:17),so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the word of God alone.
In the arena of adversity,the scripture teaches us three essential truths about God-truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity.They are:
All of us face adversity in various forms and at different times.Life is difficult.
On a larger scale we read in our newspapers or see on the evening news instances of grief,and pain on a massive scale.there is war,terrorism,earthquakes,famine,racial injustice,murder,and exploitation occurring daily in various parts of the world.All this makes us wonder and ask,"where is God?"
Even when life seems to be going our way and our daily path seems pleasant and smooth,we do not know what the future hold."We do not know what a day may bring forth".Proverbs 27:1.
Do you have such a relationship with God and such a confidence in Him that you believe He is with you and in your adversity even though you do not see any evidence of His presence and His power?
Obeying God is worked out within well-defined boundaries of God's revealed will.Trusting God is worked out in an arena that has no boundaries.It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him.When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness.But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question his goodness.God views our distrust of Him as seriously as He views our disobedience.In order to trust God,we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith,not of sense.And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel(Romans 10:17),so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the word of God alone.
In the arena of adversity,the scripture teaches us three essential truths about God-truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity.They are:
- God is completely sovereign.
- God is infinite in wisdom.
- God is perfect in love.
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