Where’s the Good
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. There are countless references in Scripture telling us that God will not do us any harm, only good. There’s Jeremiah 32 where God promises to do us good with all his heart and soul. Then Psalm 84 assures that God will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly. Those verses used to confound me, because chronic pain, quadriplegia, cancer, and now this new cancer, well…it seemed as though God were harming me.
Yes, those painful things are the dark, driving rain of God’s sovereignty. But the sunshine of God’s sovereignty is the depth of faith, the seasoned wisdom, the profound peace, settled-ness of soul, and the iron-fisted trust that comes from walking through that valley of the shadow of death. This is the ‘good’ God is interested in… hard, awful things that ultimately end up doing good for the soul. Something for you to remember!
Desperate for Hope: Questions We Ask God in Suffering
Vaneetha Risner joins the podcast again to talk about finding true hope in suffering. With a story that includes childhood bullying, losing an infant son, developing post-polio syndrome, and going through an unwanted divorce, Vaneetha has wrestled with God. But through her hardships, God has met Vaneetha in an unmistakable way and she has learned to trust him.
