TROUBLES AND TRUST By Noel Serrano from the Gala Foundation 2020

uring the COVID-19 Crisis Go Now Home » Family QAs » Get Help » Family Q&A » Faith Q&As » Trusting God in the Hard Times TRUSTING GOD IN THE HARD TIMES How can I hold on to my faith in God when things go wrong? As a Christian, I know that I'm supposed to "give thanks in all things" and look to the Lord for my daily needs. Yet I've been through some devastating experiences over the past year. How can I be thankful and trust God at a time like this? SHARE: Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on print Share on email God hasn’t promised us a rose garden. Not in this present world, anyhow. That misguided idea has no place in the message of the Christian gospel. When life seems full of pain, we need to remember what Paul said to Timothy about “enduring hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 2:3). We should also bear in mind a couple of very broad principles that are fundamental to the biblical worldview. First, we must never forget that we live in a fallen world. If things go wrong and trials beset us, this isn’t a reflection on the power and genuineness of God’s love. Nor does it necessarily imply that we have sinned against Him or displeased Him. It simply means that the world isn’t what it’s supposed to be.