Faith on Solid Ground: Embracing God's Goodness in Uncertain Times

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*_Faith on Solid Ground: Embracing God's Goodness in Uncertain Times_*


*Truly God is good* to Israel,

To such as are pure in heart.

~Psalm 73:1


It is important that we have basic foundational truths that we can hold on to. Because all of us are going to face experiences in life that we will not understand. Hard and painful experiences that will challenge God's goodness and God's love.


If God is good, then why did God allow this tragedy to happen to me? If God loves me, then why would He allow me to experience this heartache? The truth is that we can't understand why certain things happened in our life.


We need to make it a practice, whenever we are faced with a situation that we cannot understand, we fall back on what we do understand.


And what I do understand is that God is good, that God loves me, and that all things are working together for good to those who love God. And thus, by faith I accept my adverse circumstances. Though I don't understand them, I accept them, knowing that it is God that has brought these circumstances. It is God who is in the control of my life. Because I have committed my life to Him. And I know that God is working in these circumstances.


If I did not have the basic foundations underneath, then when the troubles come, when I get into these kind of circumstances, I would be totally wiped out and devastated.


And we do see people that they seem to be going quite great in their walk with the Lord, and then adversity arises, and they just can't seem to handle the adversity. The reason is that they don't really have a solid foundation in scriptural truth. These people who are being encouraged to believe God for healing in all circumstances, that give no place for any sickness, when sickness does come, or when death does come, they are not able to handle it, because they don't have a proper foundation in God's Word and in the truth. And thus, when their faith is shaken, they have got no foundation to fall back on.


Jesus said, *"A foolish man built his house upon the sand. A wise man built his house upon the rock. And the rain came and the floods rose, the house that was built upon the sand perished, but the house that was built upon the rock stood."*


And it is important that we lay a good foundation for our relationship with God, and that good foundation has to be based upon proper concepts of God that are brought to us through the Word of God.


So, God is good. I know that. I must remember that. Because that truth will be challenged by the experiences of life. But underneath, I know that God is good.

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