A little over two years ago, her husband collapsed suddenly.

He suffers from chronic pain to this very day, but Kimberly Wagner knows they're not alone.

The Lord Jesus was so gracious to assure me, I will not abandon you.

Has it been hard?

Yes. The hardest thing we have ever faced. Have there been

many days of weeping? Yes. But yet I know God has good purpose. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, along with Dana Gresh,

for September 17, 2019.

How can you trust God to write your story when you're caring for a family member who is suffering physically? We're going to hear a powerful story about just that today. All this month, we're

discussing something that theologians call the providence of God. It's a sweet doctrine,

and that's the fact that God wisely controls everything that happens in our lives, whether we

consider them good or not. In fact, just last night, my husband Robert and I were lying in bed

singing an old gospel song called Day by Day. And one of those lines reads,

He whose heart is kind beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best. And then it

goes on to talk about how sometimes God gives pain, sometimes he gives pleasure, sometimes he gives toil, and sometimes he gives

peace and rest. Now, it may seem strange to us that our loving father, whose heart toward us,

his children, truly is kind beyond all measure, that that same loving father sometimes gives us

pain instead of pleasure and toil

instead of rest. But here's a thing, we can't see the whole picture the way he does. So our job,

our assignment, is to learn to rest in God's loving kindness, his faithfulness, even in the midst of the pain.

That's something that my very dear friend Kimberly Wagner and her husband Leroy are experiencing

right now. In fact, in a sense, God is giving Leroy the pain and Kimberly the toil at this

season of their lives. Maybe that's something that you're

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