How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard the Bible bus for another great study in God's Word.

Now with this message, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, concludes our study of Hebrews Chapter 11.

But first, here's a special introduction that Dr. McGee recorded for this message.

We're coming to a section now that with all these how-to books, how to overcome tension and

how to overcome worry and how to meet the problems of the day and how to handle the situations

that arise in this life, well, here's a section that there know-how-to books

been written. How do you really handle suffering? Oh, I know there are those that play along with it,

but this is something that you cannot play along with at all. And we are receiving today more letters than we've ever received

of people, God's people who are suffering, and many of them are really questioning. They're

questioning God's dealings. They question their own relationship with God. I would like to just read one

and then read a poem that may be helpful to you. It's a hymn, actually. But this letter comes from

one who knows what it is to suffer. It says, I spent one entire night kneeling and praying beside the bed

of my ill young daughter who was suffering from an incurable cancer. When my prayers didn't seem to

alleviate her suffering, my faith was beginning to weaken. I was beginning to

think that God is a figment of our imagination. May I say to you, he felt that if he continued

in that line, he'd lose all. he'd lose contact with God altogether. Well, God took

that daughter of his that had cancer, and this man has really been through the fires,

but he's come out with a real living faith. And since I do know something about cancer,

it always touches me when I hear about cases like this. My heart does go out to this man and

to his wife and the loss of their daughter by this dreaded monster

today.

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