Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth on what happens when we really trust God.

We give him our weakness, we give him our pain, we give him our suffering, we give him our

thorns and our affliction.

And God says, in exchange, I will give you my strength, my power, my grace to endure

and to exalt, to embrace the cross, to glory in the cross.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For November 27, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh. If you could choose any problem to be removed from your life, what would it be?

Why doesn't God just take it away?

Nancy will help you think through this difficult question, continuing in a series on thankfulness

called The Blessings of Thorns.

You know, when we're going through thorns and afflictions in our lives, we tend to think we know

what would be good, and what we usually think what would be good is for God to remove the problem.

But God knows what is best, and his idea of best and good are often

different than our idea of best and good. God knows what we really need. I think of that

passage in John chapter 11 when Jesus' dear friend Lazarus was sick and dying and finally

did die, his sisters thought what would be good,

what would be best in their way of thinking, was for Jesus to come and heal their brother,

keep him from dying. But Jesus had something in mind that would ultimately bring greater glory

to God than healing Lazarus or keeping him from dying, and that was to raise him from the dead after he died,

something those sisters could not have imagined through their tears as they stood at the tomb of their

brother. And when it comes to Paul's thorn in the flesh that we've been looking at in 2nd

Corinthians chapter 12, we see that God had something better for Paul than release from his pain.

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