I'm the only Christian in my whole biological family. How do I not despair at the fact that they're all headed to hell as it stands? It's leading me to doubt the goodness of God.

Wow, Sean, thank you for the sincerity of your question and just so you know that doesn't I don't I'm not responding weird to it at all

It's not totally unlike my situation growing up. I was the only Christian

The only person I would consider a genuine Christian that was part of my

close family and that was discouraging but it didn't stay that way, thank God.

But, um, there's two issues here.

One is just you feeling sorrowful about the fate of your family and the other is you

actually thinking it's making me doubt God's goodness. That's a struggle I think a lot

of Christians have felt when they think of someone they love and care about and they think that person is, I don't think that person's saved.

I think a lot of the viewers, people watching this this you feel that too and I can say a few things that you know do I have like the

magic bullet that's gonna fix this I doubt it but maybe I'll say a few things

that I think help me and genuinely do help me and one of them is just the advice of

weight you don't yet understand the goodness of God in relation to his judgment of sin and his punishment of sinners.

You don't yet understand that.

But you will. You just have to wait. There's this amazing passage in Revelation 19

where they're actually praising God for his judgment on the on the great Babylon right and he's he's

punishing them and punishing the wicked and the Saints are worshiping God

because his judgments are good.

In fact, this is what Psalm 119 says,

your judgments are just and true, and they're pure.

Like God's judgments are actually good.

Well, revelation, here's why it's so encouraging to me, this passage comes

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