Sermons

We all encounter difficult things in life, from minor hardships to outright tragedy. It’s easy to think that God has abandoned us when things go wrong, or to think that He is punishing us for some reason. But what is really happening? Does God really strike us for our mistakes, or leave us to suffer alone? In this section the writer uses God’s chastening to make his point about remaining faithful stronger, but he also ends up raising a bunch of really good questions that we can benefit from examining.