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Today we're in part two of our series, under the circumstances,

holding on to God when it appears that God is no longer holding on to you.

And you may be in those circumstances right now.

You're trying to hold on to God.

You're trying to maintain your faith, or you're trying to get your faith back

when it appears that God is not responding and God doesn't even seem to know what's going on in your life.

And the question that we're exploring is, what do we do? What do we do when our circumstances

seem to point to a God that's not there? Or how do we, you know, how do we interpret circumstances

when it seems like God's not there? God doesn't care. The presence of God is, you know, in question.

The existence of God may be in question. And we're all tempted, I mean, me, me included, we are all tempted to jump to conclusions

about God based on our circumstances or really our ability or inability to interpret circumstances

and to kind of try to line up our circumstances with the existence or the presence or the faithfulness

of God. Positive circumstances and negative. Our circumstances and other people's circumstances.

I mean, your faith may have taken its biggest hit, not because of something that happened to you,

but because of something that happened to someone you love, someone you were raising, someone you were married to, someone you grew up around, or maybe a group of people that went through extraordinary heartache, and you began to doubt God based on what they were going through. And when things are up to the right, you know, we all assume isn't God good, things are going great at work, things are going great at home, things are going great in our marriage, things are going great in the nation. You know, God is good. Look at God, go, go, God go, right? And then when things are down to the right, it's where is God? What did I do wrong? And then there's this question. Okay, this is what really drives us crazy is this one. It's, hey, and why is God blessing everybody else? I mean, I don't want to be critical, but she is not near as nice a person as I am, and her life is like perfect, and I'm like the best person. Okay, I'm one of the best people I know, and my life is not going so great, you know? Why? David and the psalmist, he asked the question this way.

He was more blunt. He said, God, why do the wicked prosper? And you think about somebody at work

or somebody in your neighborhood and you wouldn't call him wicked, but in your prayer life, you can use

that language. It's David used it. Why do the wicked? Why do the bad people get all the

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