The Bible expects hard situations. Jesus tells his disciples, “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). God promises to be present in trouble (Isaiah 41:10), Paul tells believers to bring their worries to God in prayer (Philippians 4:6-7), and James says that trials produce perseverance (James 1:2-4). Jeremiah 29:11 comes from a letter to people carried into exile in Babylon, Lamentations 3 from a book that opens over a deserted Jerusalem, and Philippians from Paul “in chains for…
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