Faith, that's it, that's the message. Faith in Jesus who was raised from the dead, Faith in the Father who raised Him from the dead. There will be many challenges to faith, many times when we can doubt. We won't pass every test in real time but ultimately He will restore us. Sometimes bad things happen to us because God's doing something in us to change our character, sometimes it happens for some other reason we will never know (see Job to whom God never revealed the reason for his suffering). We are called to believe though that our lives are part of a far grander, far more important story and that everything is significant in that story, even the smallest things. Our lives are truly important to God and others who need us to be truly people of faith, not just in word but in deed. It won't always make you popular but that isn't the goal, it is to magnify Him to a world in need of the message you were uniquely designed to give.
Genesis 37.1-28, Romans 10.15-25, Matthew 14.22-33
