Trusting God in Times of Trial

Do you love your wife and children? Do you feel sometimes that they doubt your love? Stop for a minute and examine, perhaps in a new way, how God feels when we second guess His love as the heavenly Father. It's for our own good that He shepherds us and shows us something better than our own way.

As humans we are tempted, often, to use any number of reasons to believe that God is not good. What could be farther from the truth? Rejoice with Jamie Lash at the perspective-changing joy of acknowledging what God says to be true about Himself, about me, and about my present situation.

If it was a proud thing before to think of myself highly when God said I in fact was a sinner, how much more is it false humility now, after salvation, to think of myself still as a sinner when God says He has made me in fact a new creature!

God has given us many things with which to wage "a good warfare" against worry and self-pity. Consider the needs you could meet in others' lives. Consider the spiritual gift he has given you.  Consider the trustworthiness of His Word.