When things in life aren’t going how we’d like, it’s tempting to doubt that God really cares. We get fixated on our problems, which may be serious, but sometimes if we’re honest they’re pretty trivial. Today, Pastor Bill reminds us that life with Christ is not absent of hardships. But God’s love is not proved by us having a great life – after all, Jesus Himself, as well as the apostles, lived through horrible persecution. But God proved His love by sending Christ to die on our behalf so that we can be saved!