{"id":4248,"date":"2011-05-09T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T18:04:16","slug":"stuck-in-a-hell-called-why-me-why-now-what-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/stuck-in-a-hell-called-why-me-why-now-what-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in a Hell Called, “Why Me, Why Now, What For?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Almost without exception, everyone I’ve ever met or counseled with, when faced with pain and adversity asks all or one of the following three questions:\u00a0 “Why me, Why now, What for?”<\/p>\n

Of the three, the most perplexing is the last, “What for?” What possible purpose could this be serving? The death of a loved one, the loss and estrangement of a child, cancer, the loss of a job or even a career, an accident, a divorce, a thousand other dark, sad experiences lead us to question, “What is God’s purpose in this pain and where is it all leading?”<\/p>\n

Yesterday in the series, “When You’re Going Through Hell Don’t Stop,”<\/strong> we talked about the process by which God uses pain to grow us up.\u00a0 How we respond to temptation, testing and trials; understanding what each one of them are directed to and how to respond is key to growing through the pain.<\/p>\n

Remember everyone<\/em> goes through the pain.\u00a0 Everyone goes through the fire.\u00a0 But not everyone gets burned.\u00a0 Some people can use the fire as a refiner’s fire and get better, not bitter.\u00a0 Which are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost without exception, everyone I’ve ever met or counseled with, when faced with pain and adversity asks all or one of the following three questions:\u00a0 “Why me, Why now, What for?” Of the three, the most perplexing is the last, “What for?” What possible purpose could this be serving? The death of a loved one, … Continue reading “Stuck in a Hell Called, “Why Me, Why Now, What For?””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}