Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to connect you with

people and resources to remind you that you're not alone.

In this episode, number 226, I'm chatting with Pastor, author, speaker, Tommy Nelson

about how to help a spouse who's dealing with anxiety and depression.

Yeah, whenever you go through that, you end up like Job saying, I shouldn't be going

through this because I've been doing good.

And all you're aware of when you're in that time is pain.

You're not thinking theology, you're thinking pain.

And you want God now to be not God.

You want Him to be a genie and you want Him to take away this pain.

And what you have to realize is that God uses time.

If there weren't time, God would be a genie.

He would just rub the Bible and give me what you want.

And He isn't.

And so you have to be able to know that God is good and to say, why are you in despair

oh my soul, hope in God where I will again praise Him, my Savior in my God and you have

to rest in that and know that God in time.

Right now, He is saying, rest my child and in time, things will alter.

But sometimes we have such a problem of seeing a God who is good and sovereign amidst times

that are painful.

And we have to recognize that they can both be true.

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