Speaker 1: I will tell you this, not everything that happens in
Speaker 1: the world is God's will. God hates the evil, and
Speaker 1: a lot of evil's done in the world. And God
Speaker 1: could easily take away evil, really, or simple take away
Speaker 1: your freedom to do it, and mine too, because you've
Speaker 1: done some evil things in life, and so have I.
Speaker 1: And he could easily get rid of all suffering by
Speaker 1: taking away your choice and my choice and turn us
Speaker 1: all into puppets. But He wants us to voluntarily love,
Speaker 1: so he puts up with the pain that evil cause
Speaker 1: in order to give you the freedom of choice. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna go through life and a lot of things
Speaker 1: in life. You're not gonna understand losses. You don't understand. Hurts,
Speaker 1: you don't understand rejection, you don't understand. Problems you don't understand.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, you don't have to understand them
Speaker 1: to be at peace. In fact, an explanation doesn't give
Speaker 1: you peace anyway. When someone you love dies, if somebody
Speaker 1: told you the explanation for it, it wouldn't make you
Speaker 1: any happier. You still have the loss. Explanations don't comfort.
Speaker 1: What you need is not peace, I mean not in
Speaker 1: an explanation you need presence, the presence of God in
Speaker 1: your life. And what you need is what the Bible
Speaker 1: calls the peace that passes understanding. Look up here on
Speaker 1: the screen. Philippians four to seven says this, the peace
Speaker 1: of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts
Speaker 1: and minds through Christ Jesus. Now, what is the peace
Speaker 1: that passes understanding. It's when you feel at peace even
Speaker 1: though you don't understand what's going on. You have no reason,
Speaker 1: no explanation, no discernment. You just don't know why it's happening,
Speaker 1: but you're still at peace. And that is a supernatural
Speaker 1: peace that comes from God. Is that peace that passes
Speaker 1: understanding because I don't know why this is happening, but
Speaker 1: I do know this. I do know God is a
Speaker 1: good God, and I do know that he loves me,
Speaker 1: and I do know that he wants what's best for
Speaker 1: my life, and I do know that I can trust
Speaker 1: him even when I don't understand it. That's the peace
Speaker 1: that passes understand and it comes from feeling the love
Speaker 1: of God in your life.