Friday, August 21, 2015

Through Trials, Not from Them

Sometimes it's tempting to think people deserve their problems. And sometimes we do. Some of us have turned doing stupid things that mess up our lives into an art form.

But sometimes, often even, bad things happen to good people. Like me. Like you. Like us. People who love God. It's actually God's kindness to us, to bring us closer to him.

We tend to think our closeness to God and our experience with him will keep the bad things away. But do you see how that thought-pattern leads to trusting our experience instead of God?

Our experience with God is not meant to protect us from trials, but to safeguard us through them.

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