When God Feels Far | The Writings | Psalm 56

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

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Does the presence of suffering in your life indicate the lack of God's presence or care? How do you react to bad news and trials? Instead of questioning God's goodness, Jensen shares how David reacts to suffering in Psalm 56. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 56

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:12.0	A couple weeks ago Beth Moore shared a post on
0:16.5	Instagram that I was deeply moved by. She'd gotten some lab results that worried her
0:21.5	doctors and had to get further testing done to find out
0:24.6	whether or not she had cancer. In the in-between of getting the tests and waiting, she
0:30.0	shared a post about getting these tests done. She later added a PS, letting her followers
0:35.0	know that the tests had come back and everything was okay. Her doctor wasn't concerned.
0:40.7	She said she was happy and grateful, and she could have left it there, but she continued on and I want to read what she said because I found it so profoundly encouraging.
0:50.0	Now listen carefully to what I'm about to say. I would have been no less loved by God, nor less
0:56.5	attended to by God, nor heard by God if the news had been different. It was simply not on his divine schedule for my journey
1:04.9	presently. Other things are. I just don't want the enemy to mess with your
1:10.1	head if I got good news and you didn't. He loves us all so very much. See, so often I hear people
1:20.0	in the church wondering, is God here with me? Does he care about me? Does he love me? In the midst of suffering and hardship, in the midst of divorce, illness, fracturing relationships, false accusations, job loss, death of a loved
1:37.2	one. In the midst of these things, it's not uncommon for us to look at the mess around us and wonder if the presence of suffering indicates a lack of care from God.
1:49.0	See, Beth Moore knew that it may be someone's inclination to wonder if God cared less for them
1:55.0	because they didn't get good news, because they were facing a cancer
2:00.3	diagnosis that day. But she also knew that whether her news had been good or bad,
2:06.4	she would have been no less loved, attended to, or heard by her God. She knew something that David knew when he wrote Psalm 56. The presence of
2:17.5	suffering in our lives does not change anything about who God is.
2:24.0	Let me say that again.
2:25.0	The presence of suffering in your life
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