Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations.

I hope that you had a great weekend and had some time to really just unplug from your phone, from work, even social media, and just spend time with your friends and family, especially on Mother's Day yesterday, which was so special.

But to start the week off right, the phrase that we're going to be meditating on

is redemption and tribulation. Today's Monday meditation is a firewalk, a holy fire, a message for the

scorched, a message for the weary, a message for the warrior out there. This message is for you because we're talking

about redemption in the face of tribulation. When life doesn't just bruise, it sometimes even

breaks you. And when prayers feel unanswered and hope is thin, but somehow, somehow, by the

grace of God, somehow through the smoke and ash, you still believe

there's a God who redeems. But let's begin where many of us are, not where we pretend to be.

Maybe you're listening today and you're in the middle of something that is just unspeakable.

Or you've lost someone that's so close and dear to your heart and a loved one.

Or you lost your job or your dreams, if you feel like they're stalling,

or your body has betrayed you, or your faith is just hanging on by a thread.

Just remember, you're in the midst of the kind of trial

that makes you want to just scream at the sky.

Where are you, God?

Where are you? I need you.

So badly, show yourself.

And after you scream and after you yell at the sky,

I want you to think about the Hall of Faith

and you'll realize you're in good company.

Job was stripped of his children, his wealth, and his dignity, and he sat in dust and scraped the sores off of his skin with broken pottery. And yet in the middle of the devastation,

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