Grieving WellPrøve

How can you have boldness in your faith if history and circumstances have been difficult? How can you find bold faith, particularly when you’ve prayed for God to help, and He doesn’t? Or when you have lost someone suddenly? Or lost a loved one whom you depended on and loved deeply?

If you’ve experienced God’s goodness in the past during a difficult time, certainly that helps. It gives you the confidence that He’s able to handle your today or your tomorrow. Then you have to trust in the fact that whether He heals your pain immediately or not, He does know what He’s doing, because you’ve seen it before.

We must remind ourselves of the times when He has come through, so we can walk in faith when He does not come through in the way we want Him to. We know He’s good. We know He loves us. But we also know He’s sovereign. We must remember all three of those at the same time.

The whole book of Job centers around the question, “Why do the righteous suffer?” Deuteronomy 29:29 says that He has secret things in which He does not answer the whys we seek. That’s His prerogative. But you have to believe that God knows what He’s doing when He’s not doing what we want Him to do or when we want Him to do it. Because we have a history of knowing what He can do, we can know what He might do whether or not He does it.

PRAYER: Father, I ask You to fill me with Your peace. I know You work things out in Your own good time, but give me the confidence that Your ways really are best for me. And if I must endure a difficult season, give me the strength and the peace of mind to make it through, stronger than I was before. Thank you for Your never-ending care. In Christ's name, amen.