Big Idea: You are what you fight for

Christ followers hurt like everyone else, but they don’t have to despair

We have an argument for God:

· “If you are all-powerful & good, you’d never let this happen”

Two typical answers to the “why” question:

1. Moral answer: blessings are proportionate to obedience

2. Cynical answer: blessings are proportionate to chance

God has a response for us:

· “You cannot have Me and have your way”

“…if God were my accomplice He had betrayed me, but if He were really God His will is infinitely beyond my largest notion of what He is up to.”

- Elisabeth Eliot

“Lord, make me a great composer in the world and I’ll celebrate your glory thru music…in return, I’ll give you my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility, every hour of my life and I’ll publicly wear my and crucifix and help my fellow man all I can.” - Salieri