In this episode, I talk about some of my personal experiences and how I would allow myself to get discouraged when hard times came my way. I talk about how I learned to rely on the Lord for strength during these hard times, and even if the outcome doesn’t appear in the way I expect or desire it to, I trust that the Lord is still good and that I may not understand His plan now, but I can still trust in His goodness and faithfulness to me. I also dive into Romans 5 and Psalm 56 and share about how these trials and hardships we experience in life help produce steadfastness in our lives as we learn to put our trust in Jesus. I also share about how our hardships in life point us back to Christ as a reminder that He is the only one who will satisfy our every need, and that our contentment and happiness should not be contingent on whether good things are happening in our lives or not.
