"... and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
(Psalm 50:15)
Life is difficult. It's full of sharp forms of adversity and dull ones. Natural disasters and crisis in our health, our home, or our career can cut deep. And the daily struggles of parenting, of maintaining our homes, and of loving our spouses can push on us in uncomfortable ways. Through adversities large and small, the world begs us to wonder, "Where is God?" Like a thick curtain that moves along before us as we move toward it, life is ever-unpredictable and it can leave us aching for worldly distraction instead of godly devotion.
These are the circumstances that make our trust in the sovereignty of God absolutely essential! In chapter 1 of Jerry Bridges Trusting God, he writes that, "Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them" [20].
Wow! That's huge for us church family. If you belong to God then he's rewired you to love his glory. So, pick up and read because none of us has arrived when it comes to glorifying God by being happy in him ... because we trust him.
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