The Zeal of the Lord (Part 2 of 2)

trials and disappointments often seem to catch us off guard but God is never surprised. Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how this truth can bring us sustained peace.

We're concluding our series called A Child Is Born. Let's join Alister as he teaches from Isaiah chapter 9 verse 7. The journey of the Christian is essentially the journey of discovering increasingly the reliability, the trustworthiness of the Father's promises. So much so that we're able, then, to encounter that which runs in the crosshairs, as it were, to what would seem best. And if you doubt that, you need only to read the Bible. You can go back and start from the beginning and read it all the way through, and you discover that the unfolding plan of God is an expression of his zeal. So let's take just one illustration. You can read about it in Genesis 45 as homework, when Joseph's brothers are finally made aware of the fact that the encounter that they've been having with this individual, the representative of the Pharaoh.