The Gospel Protects Us

I recently walked through a season of trials like none that I have ever experienced. Following my Father' passing and my Mother’s sudden and shocking car wreck, my car broke down with a flat tire. I got poison ivy so badly it was on my eyelids. My children were soon suffering from fevers of over 103 coupled with nausea and vomiting. And oh yeah, around that time I announced that I was resigning from Sovereign King to move to Spotsylvania, VA to plant a new church.

Trials? I knew them well. Enduring them well? That was yet to be determined.

So I returned to this little document trying to see if I knew anything about suffering when I originally wrote it. I couldn’t have imagined when preaching that series that I would to experience such trials, but as I reread these words, I could see that at least God had prepared me well.