How Can I Believe God Protects Me When Tragedy Strikes?
I think feeling protected by God can seem so challenging because most of us can point to some kind of tragedy or some kind of extreme heartbreak or even rejection abandonment or discouragement disillusionment where you thought life was going to go this way and now it’s going that way and you’re wondering has God looked away and you know maybe you’ve had a moment where you’ve laid in in on your couch or on your bed and stared up at the ceiling and just thought God where are you or you’ve been sobbing in your pillow and
you feel scared you feel alone you feel like you you’re not seeing evidence of God doing something and so you fear that God is doing nothing and I just want to say I personally know these feelings in a really deep way and for those who’ve been following law with my journey the past seven years of my life have been really hard I never ever thought that some of the circumstances and tragedies and heartbreak and rejection uh abandonment really I never thought that any of this would be part of my story I had such a vision for
where my life was going to go where my the life of my family was going to go and I just assumed if I did two plus two it would equal four and I know that there are listeners listening today where you have experienced some kind of tragedy and you’re asking the question how could I believe that God protects when this is happening maybe you it is the death of a relationship maybe it is the death of a dream or maybe it is actually a death of someone that you love and I want to give you for those of you who are dealing with
the death of someone that you loved I want to start there and I want to give you a Bible verse that I think will be very encouraging in Isaiah 57 1. it says the righteous perish but no one takes it to heart The Devout or taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil and then it goes on to same verse two those who walk uprightly enter into peace and they find rest as they lie in death and as I read that I I start to realize again God’s ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are higher than
