Whatever your circumstances right now, I pray this honest conversation about learning to trust God’s goodness gives you hope to persist and present your requests to the Lord. There is no worry too big for him; there is no amount of doubt He cannot handle. Maria Hatch-Bowersock’s story will help you press into Jesus and come out on the other side of today’s concerns with a deeper trust in God and a desire to abide with Him in all things.
IF YOUR CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE IT HARD TO BELIEVE GOD’S GOODNESS, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.
Weakness, grief, loss, and pain are not topics we love to talk about. Profound pain makes me want to run and hide and isolate from even the people who love me most. When Maria lost her parents in a plane crash, the story of her brother surviving his second plane crash made their experience very public; but publicity was not the world in which she wanted to work out her feelings and questions for God.
This beautiful and honest conversation about finding God’s goodness amidst terrible loss feels timely given the season of loss, grief and struggle in our nation right now due to the coronavirus pandemic. No matter how these circumstances have touched you – very much or very little – I pray that the moments you spend listening to Maria’s journey toward believing God’s goodness for herself will move you to trusting in Him more as well.
Specifically, pay attention to the following in this episode:
That it’s okay to question God; your questions are not a threat to Him.
What it means to delight in weakness and trust His strength
How grief can lead the way for important discoveries in your faith.
What it looks like to “practice” God’s truth and His character and how that grows your trust for Him.
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MORE ABOUT MARIA:
After her parents were killed in a plane crash that left her brother in critical condition, Maria didn't need to know if God was good, she needed to know His goodness was personal. Her book and Bible study called Oh, Goodness share the story of her seven-year journey in discovering that truth.
A wife and mom to four, Maria’s work is dedicated to sharing God's goodness while providing women the tools to discover his character for themselves.
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MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
Laura Harris, episode 121: Listening to Your Feelings Can Sabotage Your Dream
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Oh, Goodness: If everything in our lives we knew to be good was gone, would we still say God is good? by Maria Hatch-Bowersock
Oh, Goodness the Bible Study: Discovering God’s goodness for ourselves by Maria Hatch-Bowersock
Scripture:
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
~ 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
~ Psalm 27:13 (NIV)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,
who does not change like shifting shadows.
~ James 1:27 (NIV)
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
~ 2 Corinthians 12:10 (NIV)
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