Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, November 24th.

Every year seems to bring fresh proof that hardship is unavoidable.

Today we begin a series of messages that shows how to endure and even thrive when adversity strikes.

Are you experiencing some adversity in your life? It may be sickness or maybe financial,

maybe something emotional, maybe in your family, whatever it might be. What is your response?

Are you blaming God? Why did you let this happen to me, God? I see other people who are doing thus and so and it's not

happening to them that what's your real response have you thought about stopping and saying

Lord I don't know what you're up to but I know that you said you love me and you don't make

mistakes and so I know that whatever your purpose is it it has to be good. So I'm going to

trust you. Can you say that? Or do you still feel angry, bitter, resentful, hostile toward God for

what you're going through? You see, it's our response that either turns it for something good or we suffer the consequences.

Now, there are two primary questions that people ask about difficult times. And the first one,

of course, is God, why do you allow this to happen to my life? Why? And somebody says, well, if you're a real Christian, you won't

ask why. Well, you and I know somebody who asked that question, don't we? Jesus said, my God, my God,

why has thou forsaken me? And the reason he was saying that, because he was bearing the total guilt of all mankind for all ages

in those moments in his body his mind his will his emotion my god my god why have self-ersaken

me even though he had a oneness of relationship unequal by anything you and I could enjoy in life. He was feeling it.

He was bearing it. And he was asking, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And I'm gratefully

did because there are people today who ask the same question, my God, my God, why do you let me

continue in this? Just take me home, God.

Why have you allowed this to happen? So the question of why is a relevant question, and let me just say

this to you. God doesn't get upset because you ask him why. He knows why you ask him why,

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