Everyday Heroes Who Are Helping Couples Take Their Marriages to New Heights, Part 2
Are you struggling to resolve conflict in your marriage?
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Are you struggling to resolve conflict in your marriage?
On today’s edition of Family Talk, Gary Bauer interviews Mark and Jan Yokers about their remarkable journey as campus sweethearts guided by divine purpose.
What happens when we truly surrender our pain to God instead of holding onto it?
God often uses our deepest struggles to create something beautiful.
What does a person do when God makes no sense? To whom does he confess his troubling—even heretical—thoughts? From whom does he seek counsel? What does he tell his family when his faith is severely shaken? While searching for something more reliable in which to believe, he discovers that there is no other name—no other god—to whom he can turn.
The natural reaction to hardships is to say, "Lord, is this the way You treat Your own? I thought You cared for me, but I was wrong. I can't love a God like that." It is a tragic misunderstanding.
In my work with families who are going through various hardships, from sickness and death to marital conflict and adolescent rebellion, I have found it common for those in crisis to feel great frustration with God.
We now know that faith must be tough, but why? Is there a logical reason why the Lord asks us to strengthen our resolve and meet our difficulties head-on?
As strange as it seems, habitual well-being is not advantageous to a species. An existence without challenge takes its toll on virtually every living thing. Just look at the flabby animals in a zoo, for example. Food is delivered to them every day, and they need do nothing but lie around and yawn.



