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If we don't see God as faithful, we'll never see suffering as useful. You see, to trust God as always good in His doings is to not need to know what He's doing to know it's for our good. "And we know all things work together for good to those who love God" (Romans 8:28).

Our confidence in a trying circumstance needs to be based on the right deliverance. And the right deliverance isn't always about God getting us out of trouble, but more so about God getting the trouble out of us. "I sought the LORD and He delivered me from all my fears" (Psalm 34:4).‍

Salvation isn’t about “just accepting" Jesus. Salvation is about realizing Jesus accepts you and makes you just. Big difference. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:23-24).

The government will not elect the gospel and schools do not respect the gospel. The courts no longer protect the gospel and the world at large rejects the gospel. Yet by God's grace alone, salvation goes to anyone...

Is your thinking formed by culture or Scripture? Truth or error? One way not only conforms to the world, but it also makes compromises with sin; while the other way is transformed by the Lord and knows the promises of the Son.

Today, let us be humbled by the love of Christ who freely gave us His life. You see, He chose not to evade the cross but to endure the cross. Let us therefore, "look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith...