Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hi friends, welcome back to Year in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host, Beth.

Hi, everyone. Today we're going to be

talking about how we plan to apply these passages that we've been covering this week to our own

lives. So Alexa, what are your takeaways? As I was thinking about this week and this day in the

study in particular, I found myself thinking about the times in life when

nothing seems good. We read Romans 328 today's study day, which says, we know that all things

work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

And you know, that's an encouraging verse. It does help us see that God truly does work everything

for good in our lives. But I don't know about you, Beth. I feel like this verse is often used

as an encouragement during hard times. And again, it is encouraging, but it could also be hard to believe

the words of that verse when life is just super hard. Have you felt that way?

Yeah, absolutely. It's like whenever somebody tells you that it's going to be okay after

something really bad happens, it's like almost always impossible to believe them at that moment.

Yeah, right. So in thinking about this application day, I wanted to respond with trust

in the Lord in hard times, resting in the truth that he is going to bring something good from what

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