Transcript
There are three traps that are so easy to fall into in times of suffering, the trap of doubt, the trap of worry and the trap of envy. There are, there are two points of focus to the trap of doubt. One is that sort of dark hallway of obsessive self-doubt, where you retrace every step, every thought, everything you did, over and over and over again, looking for the what ifs or the if onlys wondering if you could have done something that would make things different. It makes sense that you want to do that, but listen, not one bit of that obsessive self-assessment will remove what has already happened, and what you do is you're not you're not removing suffering.
Your Hope Was Never in Your Righteousness
You're actually doing something that's very negative for your own heart, for your own peace, for your own ability with hope and confidence to move on. Your hope has never, ever been in your righteousness. Your hope has been in a perfectly righteous savior who offers you His grace. There's a second thing. It's the trap of doubt of God. It's a second trap of doubt, and it's one of the evil tricks of the enemy to whisper in your ear. Where is God now? Where is his love? Now, where is his presence? Now, look at the guy next to you. Doesn't he have a much easier life?
Maybe God does have favorites. Maybe he has forgotten you. Maybe he's not so good after all. Here's what's deadly about that. If you allow yourself, because you're going through something you didn't want to go through, that's difficult, yes, even heartbreaking, to doubt the goodness of God, then you don't run to him for help, because you don't run for help to someone, you've come to doubt, and that's the that's the plot of the enemy, because if he can get you to doubt God's goodness, then you'll quit running to God for the help that only He can give, whether it's self-doubt or it's doubt of God, they will both keep you from running where you need to run to find the help that only God can give you.
