The Evening News

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven. Psalm 11:4a



The evening news comes on with handsome man in a nice suit or beautiful woman dressed in a designer outfit with warm voices give bad news.  These thirty minutes of bite-sized tragedies create doubt storms and turbulent days when the enemy is too big, the task too great, the future is bleak, and answers too few.


We start asking questions.  If God is so good, why do I sometimes feel so bad?  If the message of Christ is so clear, why am I so confused?  If the Father is in control, why do so many good people have gut-wrenching problems?


First, trust and faith in God enable believers to face adversity. Grace knows how to fight, not how to flee.  Second, God tests the righteous and tries the children of men.  Testing of the righteous is for removal of dross and for the wicked results in judgment.  Third, we live in two worlds and witness the success of the wicked. This world is the only heaven that the world will experience and the only Hell believers will endure.  This world is not the believer's home.  For the righteous, life is one of faith.  God has got control.  Trust His Word and not what handsome or beautiful news anchor says.


Hee Haw comedian Grady Nutt of Hee Haw said, “God should be a resource in the struggle, not a way around it.”