Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

It's only just a matter around.

Welcome to Sizzy Larson Live. Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word and that

heightens your awareness of his very real presence

in your life. Well, we're talking about a tough topic today, but everybody, and I mean everybody,

encounters this topic. Are you ready? It's suffering. Why does God allow it? What can we learn from it?

And how should we frame our trials in a way that allows us to keep perspective? I think sometimes

people in the faith think we deny it. We pretend our trials don't exist, but that doesn't help us

heal, and it really isn't even a real way to frame. That's not actually faith by pretending.

In fact, Abraham faced the fact that his body was as good as dead. He faced the fact, but he did not let that make him waver in unbelief regarding the promises of God. So how do we frame our trials in a way that help us remember that God is good and his promises are true and he's never going to let us go? And we can walk through the valley of the shadow and remember that we still belong to God,

even when we can't see him or sense him or feel him. Well, Dr. John M. Perkins joins me today.

We're going to hear his amazing story. We'll draw from his book, Count it All Joy, the ridiculous

paradox of suffering. He writes this. He says, suffering has a way of sharpening your vision,

helping you to focus on what really matters in life.

It's actually a testing ground.

We're going to get him on in a moment, but I just want to remind you, if you're new to the

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