“What If Your Hardship Is Evidence That God Hasn’t Abandoned You?” November 18
Where is God when life gets hard?
When circumstances become painful, prayers seem unanswered, or a trial goes on much longer than we expected, it can be tempting to wonder:
Is God angry with me?
Have I done something wrong?
Or even:
Does He still love me?
But what if some of the very circumstances we want God to remove are circumstances He intends to use?
Hebrews 12 says something surprising about hardship, God’s love, and the way a perfect Father deals with His children.
And our response matters.
Will hardship produce growth—or discouragement and eventually bitterness?
There is also a character quality that has everything to do with how we respond to God and to other people.
Without it, we cannot come to God rightly, love and serve others well, lead biblically, communicate as we should, or resolve conflict God’s way.
And its opposite can quietly interfere with every one of those things.
What is that quality—and could its opposite be showing up in ways we don’t recognize?
