Trusting God When It Hurts

• By candidasullivan
• December 15, 2025
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I am so thankful for the power of prayer. Regardless of what happens to us in our lives, God is always there. While we can’t often make sense of the heartache all around us, I am so thankful God allows us to talk to Him. And when we don’t have the words to convey the pain of our hearts, God understands our tears. Some seasons leave us with nothing but tears—and even then, God listens. Each trial can help us draw closer to Him.

The enemy, however, wants to stand in our way. He tells us that hardship should not have happened to us. He whispers that it’s unfair, that we didn’t deserve it, and that God should have stopped it. Anytime we get in that place of resentment, the enemy uses it to come between God and us. When we argue against reality—against what has already happened—we only cause ourselves more pain. Since it has already happened, the most healing thing we can do is ask God what He wants us to learn from it all, even if we are still hurting and don’t yet understand.

God loves us—through good times and bad. He sent His Son to die for our sins. Even though I can never repay Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins, I can honor Him with my life. Not out of obligation, but out of love and gratitude. I can praise Him through my own storms and draw as close to Him as my heart will allow.

God can use the hardships of our lives to bless other people and us. He can turn our heartaches into blessings. What feels unbearable today may one day become the very place where His glory shines through us. We just have to trust Him.

Romans 8:35–39 (KJV)
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing we face can separate us from His love—and that truth alone can carry us through anything.