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Erik Reed: Where is God When it Hurts?

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Where is God when it hurts? Author Erik Reed reflects on his intimate experience of God amidst his son's suffering -- and learning to trust God in the hard.

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0:00.0

To trust the Lord, to trust anything is to put full confidence and dependence on that thing, right?

0:05.6

The Hebrew verb there to trust is actually image about somebody laying face down on the ground with their back exposed, right?

0:12.6

You're in your most vulnerable position. You're trusting whoever's in the presence of you, to not harm you,

0:17.4

to not take advantage of you, right? You're fully exposed. In this idea of trusting God with all your heart, every fiber of your being, nothing held back,

0:25.6

and not lean on your own understanding. That's the contrast. And so

0:30.0

the way that we learn to trust God is we have to know him and we come to know him through his word.

0:35.8

We come. It's not our opinions of God that matter. It's who is God. It has he revealed himself.

0:51.2

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson.

0:57.5

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app.

1:03.7

This is Family Life today.

1:18.5

Well, I've often preached. See if you can finish. Yes, you've preached a lot. Well, I just wonder if you can finish this sermon.

1:25.4

Theme sitting there in the front row. I do listen. I just don't know. I know. I know you're going to be able to finish this.

1:30.9

I've often said it's not the size of your faith that matters. It's the size of your God. Yeah.

1:36.7

And so it's that. Do I get an A? Yeah, you did.

1:38.6

You did. You did me five. Yeah. I mean, I didn't know if you listen, but you heard it.

1:43.7

I've lived multiple praying hundreds of times and 30 years, but often we think I need greater faith.

1:50.9

And Jesus is the one who said, no, you just need mustard seed size faith, small faith.

1:55.2

But if that faith is in a God, you don't know or you can't trust, it doesn't matter what size you're faith.

2:00.4

It's really the size of your God or the understanding of who he is.

2:03.7

And I think that's really important because when we go through hard or tragic times or even times,

2:08.9

we just can't make sense of it. And we can't understand how God would allow this to happen or allow us to walk this path.

2:16.8

That's when we go back to that and think, is that when we find out we're kind of

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