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John chapter 13 verse 7, Jesus answered him,

what I am doing, you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.

This verse has meant so much to me over recent years amidst challenges and trials of various

kinds to use language from first Peter. And I just want to encourage you with it today,

especially if you were walking through challenge trial in your life.

And anyway, this picture of Jesus washing his disciples feet and Simon Peter saying,

you're going to wash my feet and he's resisting what Jesus is wanting to do in his life.

And Jesus looks at him and says, what I am doing, you don't understand now.

But afterward you will understand. And there was a moment, I was a year plus ago,

when I was walking through something in an older brother in Christ, a pastor for decades

who I respect deeply. I was sharing with him some of the struggles that I was walking through

and he looked at me and he just quoted this verse and he said, David, you don't understand

now what God is doing. But afterward one day you will understand. I was talking to another

pastor friend later that exact same day who said something very similar. He'd been studying heaven

and he said, David, I just don't think based on what the Bible teaches about who God is,

what heaven is like, that we're going to get there one day and God's going to say to us,

you know that trial, that difficulty, that challenge you walk through? Yeah, I don't know what that

was about. No, one day we're going to understand that God was working in ways we couldn't see

and didn't understand. But all throughout that challenge and trial, he was faithful and he was

wise. He was loving toward you and so I just want to encourage you with that today amidst whatever

you might be walking through that you don't understand now. One day you will understand and you

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