The Problem of PainNäide

Remember your salvation

I was in an Uber as my Middle Eastern driver drove me to my hotel. “What are you here for?” he asked.

“To give a presentation on trusting God even when life hurts.”

“I do trust in God like that,” he declared. He then told me when Hurricane Harvey flooded his house and threatened not only his stuff but his life, even then he trusted God to do whatever was best.

“How did you get faith like that?” I asked him, curious.

That’s when he told me about Afghanistan, about the day during the war when he got shot but lived due to a bulletproof vest.

“It was like someone shoved me to the ground,” he said of the bullet that zipped into the vest that saved his life. And once God saved him, this man knew he could trust God.

Once God saves you, you know you can trust him. This was Paul’s logic in Romans 8: “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (verse 32). In not sparing his only Son, God saved you. That’s why you can trust him, even when you don’t understand him.

I don’t claim to understand why you have suffered in the ways you have, but I do know enough about our Savior to trust him. If Jesus died for you, then God must care. He must love you.

Remember your salvation, and you will get through this suffering.

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