Tragedies Test Our Beliefs About God & Ourselves (TMF:832)

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Peace to Live By: Tragedies Test Our Beliefs About God & Ourselves (TMF:832) - Daniel Litton
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       By staying negative, we will prevent God from helping us. One of the reasons tragedies happen in our lives is to test our beliefs—to test what we believe about God, his goodness, and about ourselves as individuals. Of course, we question why God allows, or permits certain things to happen, certain events to come to pass. And Satan, God’s adversary and our own adversary, works to get us to think about the wrong things. He gets us to focus on the negative, and tries to create and cultivate an overall hopeless attitude in our minds. He even tries to get us to believe that what has transpired is somehow our own ‘personal’ fault, when in fact many times it is not our fault. And this false belief will cause pain to develop deep within peoples’ souls. It can cause weariness and depression in people’s lives, and they may lose their motivation to keep going, to keep living for God’s goodness, to keep pressing forward in life.