Erik Reed: Learning to Trust God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What's it look like to trust God when bad things happen to good people? Author Erik Reed describes his search for God's goodness amidst tragedy.
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| 0:00.0 | My whole understanding get to that point was that, you know, if you just love Jesus and |
| 0:04.5 | have enough faith, everything's supposed to just fall in place, you know, it's like cupcakes, |
| 0:08.5 | rainbows, pixie dust, you know, everything's supposed to just be perfect. |
| 0:11.9 | So, you know, here we are, you know, young married, you know, young in our faith, we're serving |
| 0:17.3 | in our church, eager and zealous for the Lord, and we have a son born early with big time |
| 0:23.6 | medical issues who has challenges. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 0:42.0 | matter most. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Ann Wilson, and I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on |
| 0:48.8 | our Family Life app. |
| 0:50.6 | This is FamilyLife Today. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay I've got an Ann Wilson exclusive question, I want to hear your answer to actually I've |
| 1:16.9 | got to throw you on the spot, it's pretty heavy topic. |
| 1:19.6 | Okay. |
| 1:20.6 | All right. |
| 1:21.6 | Top one reason you think people walk away from their faith, if they have faith, and then |
| 1:27.5 | they just like, I don't think I can keep believing anymore. |
| 1:30.8 | How could a good God allow this pain or tragedy in my life and in the world? |
| 1:36.5 | How'd you know you knew I was going to ask that? |
| 1:37.8 | I think that's what everybody knows, I think everybody wonders that, and the people on |
| 1:43.5 | the street that I'll talk to that they have no belief, or maybe they've turned away, |
| 1:48.3 | it's tragedy in their life, I just don't know how God could allow that. |
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