Psalms 143:3-7

When trauma or tragedy strike, it can seem to us that it’s impossible to live again. Neurosurgeon Lee Warren—who has endured his own personal tragedies—says you can survive, find your feet, reinvigorate your faith, and even experience happiness again. His treatment plan works. And hope is the first dose he prescribes.

Whether you realize it or not, you were designed to long for God. Not just to long for him, of course, but to seek and find, thirst and be satisfied, cry out and be answered beyond your dreams. Those desires come through strongly in Psalms, and several “songs of searching” show us how God enters into our own experience at our points of need to satisfy our longings forever.

Every one of us faces disappointment at some point or the other. Sometimes back-to- back disappointments can bring us to our knees in grief and hopelessness. It’s at those moments that we most need to fight it back with every God given weapon and stand firm in faith.

“God is good.” Everyone who’s been a Christian for a while has heard this statement a thousand times. We hear it. We say it. We sing it. But do we really believe it? For the next 21 days we are going to be exploring what the Bible has to tell us about the goodness of God.