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So in 145 says, God loves everyone and has compassion on all. So it's all the blessings you can think of that we often take for granted for sure.

But these are blessings, Jesus says, how is it that you're able to grow crops? Well, it's because God sends rain. He sends it to the just and unjust.

That's Dr. Tim Mulehoff and he's speaking about how God steps in to provide grace to all of us in the blessings that we experience in life.

Tim joins us today on Focus on the Family and your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and Jim.

I'm going to run out of fingers if I count how many times in the past few years I've asked what's going on right now.

I think a lot of people ask that John. It's kind of normal to have that thought and many of our viewers and listeners have sent us emails and texts and other things asking similar questions.

Here's one from a listener. How can I hold on to my faith and God when things go wrong?

As a Christian, I know that I'm supposed to give thanks in all things and look to the Lord for my daily needs.

Yet I've been through some devastating experiences over the past year. How can I be thankful and trust God at a time like this?

Those are heartfelt questions and I so appreciate the fact that she was willing to actually send that in and let us know where she was at.

I'm sure we were able to give some perspective and hope to her. But it's a difficult question. It's hard to see what God is doing during a time when you're in a valley.

I often talk about that. You're going to learn a lot. But it's tough. In the past couple of years we've seen many injustices and we want to ask God why?

Why didn't he step in and correct it? He could have done that with just his will, correct?

But even when we are tempted to despair, the Lord encourages us in his word. He says in John 16, 33,

I've said these things to you that in me you may have peace in the world. You will have tribulation, but take heart. I've overcome the world.

Now that's a promise for the present, but mostly for the future. You know that we're going to have difficulties in this world. But praise God. We have something so much bigger than this that we're going toward.

Yeah, this is not the end. So our guest today is going to help us address that listener question and think through more on this topic.

Dr. Tim Mielhoff is a professor of communication at Biola University where he teaches conflict resolution of apologetics and family communication.

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