Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer turns to a lesser-known story about God's sovereignty

in suffering.

Naiman was not looking for God.

Naiman was looking for a cure for leprosy.

But God used his search for a cure to lead him to something even greater than the cure itself.

And that is a relationship with God himself.

Yeah. And that is a relationship with God himself. Welcome to another day of teaching here on Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

As we're all painfully aware, life doesn't always go

according to plan, does it? Sometimes things go wrong because of a reckless or unwise decision,

but much of the time, it's not anything we could have possibly controlled or done differently.

And when everything seems to be headed downhill, we might start to wonder if God has abandoned

us, or quite

frankly, if he even exists or cares. Today, Pastor J.D. addresses those doubts by helping us see

God's greater purpose in our pain. It's one of his favorite Bible stories to teach on, and he titled

The Message, A Proud Man and a Suffering Girl. Let's join him right now.

Sega Kings chapter five. If you have a Bible, and I hope that you do, if you'll open

it to Second King's chapter five. And in this story today, you were going to hear the stories

of two people who are suffering. One is a follower of God and the other is not, but neither of them can figure out why who are suffering. One is a follower of God, and the other is not, but neither of them

can figure out why they are suffering. The non-believer discovers that he has a terminal disease,

and he has only a few years to live. The believer is a 14-year-old girl whose parents have just

been murdered, and she has been kidnapped and put into human trafficking.

And you're going to see God weave their two stories together and thereby giving us a quick

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