What do we do when trials strike, when we are hit with a crisis we never quite expected to happen to us?
Most of us tend to think, somehow, that major trials will never come to our own door, and then they do come, and, as Christians, we are given a choice of whether we will keep trusting God or whether we will allow the trials to undo us.
When Lauren Chandler first came to grips with the fact that her husband had cancer, she felt like her life and her family were falling apart. In her article for The Gospel Coalition “My Husband’s Cancer and the Lord of Steadfast Love,” Chandler shares her family’s struggle, and how she learned to trust the Lord through the trials.
Chandler shares how difficult it was to be thankful and to trust God and even to not be resentful when she saw other happy couples, knowing that her husband was hardly strong enough to get up from the couch, let alone go on a walk with her or attend their son’s baseball games.
But through the process of coming to grips with her husband’s cancer and the impact it had on her family, God reminded Chandler of His faithfulness.
He did not take the grief away quickly and easily, but He provided what was needed through the time of trial.
When all around us seems unstable--our health, our families, our schedules--God is our Rock (Psalm 18:2).
Trust Him and we will find out that even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil because He is with us. His rod and His staff will ALWAYS comfort us.
Good morning friends.
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