The beauty of God is that He's faithful even when He keeps us in the wilderness.

Dr. Tony Evans says there's a reason for those tough times we go through.

He puts you in impossible situations.

So I becomes clear the Lord, your God, is the only true God.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

and president of the Urban Alternative.

Even the people we think we can count on the most will eventually let us down.

But not God.

Today, Dr. Evans explains why that's true even when it feels like the Lord has left us to fend for ourselves.

Let's join him.

Freedom is released from illegitimate bondage so that you can experience what you were created and redeemed to be.

It is the clarion word of mankind.

It was in the mind of the Creator that freedom would be your normative experience in life.

But freedom carries a very expensive price tag, and the price tag of freedom is responsibility.

You hear it so much today in everybody blaming everyone but themselves for the predicament that they're in.

Kids will blame parents for the way they are today.

Folks with lung cancer will blame cigarettes for their disease.

Blacks will blame whites or vice versa.

Poor will blame the rich.

If you spend all your time blaming, the influences that have put you in the situation the day,

you'll never get around to taking responsibility for getting out of it.

Because as long as you can look over your shoulder, at something or someone who puts you in this predicament, whatever that might be,

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