Show Notes
What do you do when God simply doesn't make sense? When your prayers go unanswered, your sickness gets worse, your loss feels unbearable? Your head knows that God is good – but your heart whispers, "Then why this?"
19th-century English preacher Charles Spurgeon knew all about suffering firsthand. Despite being one of history's most powerful voices for the gospel, he battled chronic illness, deep depression, and relentless criticism. Out of that pain came one of his most quoted lines:
"God is too good to be unkind, and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart."
It's one thing to believe that when life's good, but another entirely when the storm hits.
There's a story in the Old Testament about a man named Job, a good and godly man who lost everything – his wealth, his health, his children. We met him just the other day. Now, Job couldn't see any reason for these terrible things befalling him, yet in the middle of what must have been the most painful and pitch-black darkness, he said:
Job 13:15 I will continue to trust God even if he kills me.
Faith like that doesn't deny pain – it looks through it. It says, "I don't understand what You're doing, God, but I still know who You are."
And that's the heart of trust. When you can't trace His hand in your circumstances, you can still trust His heart – because that heart once hung on a cross for you. That heart once died for you. That heart started beating again when Jesus was raised from the dead, to give you a new life, an eternal life.
And that changes everything.
Because that's God's Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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