Hearing God in Pain: The Loudest Voice

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In my distress, I called upon the Lord. To my God, I cried for help. From his temple, he heard my voice. And I cried at him. Reached his ears. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to the cross today. So good to have you with us. Hey. Can you do me a favor and help me welcome everybody who's joining us, everybody who's at Midtown, at Highlands, everybody online right now. We love you guys. Thank you for being part of the crossing. With us. Have you ever misheard someone but you were completely convinced you heard it right? A while back, Darla said to me, she said, can you load the dishwasher? But what I heard was, unload the dishwasher. So I'm putting dirty dishes back into the cabinets and now we have to rewash everything because we have no idea what is clean and what is dirty. And we laugh because we've all been there. But we do the same thing with God. Something bad happens in our lives and we assume we know what it means. We fill in the blanks, start drawing conclusions about God, Something happened that you didn't expect. Something you didn't choose, something you don't understand. And you begin to make connections about God in that moment. He he must not care. He must be punishing me...