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Sovereignty & Suffering

Yesterday at HLPC we began a 7 week look at Habakkuk. Habakkuk asks hard questions of God when what He is doing does not make sense. I referenced a quote from Dr. James Montgomery Boice that was made to his congregation at Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Philadelphia when he was diagnosed at age 62 with terminal liver cancer. Here it is again:

“If God does something in your life, would you change it? If you’d change it, you’d make it worse. It wouldn’t be as good. So that’s the way we want to accept it and move forward, and who knows what God will do?”.

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