Hey, this is James [? Gall. ?] Have you ever

gone through like a hard time?

Or like a day when you wanted to stay in bed and keep the covers

pulled up over your head?

I have.

And I am a Christian.

In fact, I'm a minister.

I know what Psalm 91 says, and I believe it.

That he who dwells in the sacred place of the most high God

shall abide under the shadow of Almighty.

I did not question that at all.

But sometimes my experience doesn't seem like it always

matches up to the word of God.

But when that happens, I'm going to tell you something

that I chose to do in my life.

I lost my wife to cancer, OK?

I went through nine years of cancer.

So what are you going to do with stuff like that?

I had to go back and re-evaluate what do I really believe.

Who am I?

And I came up with three basic conclusions.

Number one, God is good all the time.

Period.

Really, it's the truth.

I got in here a greater revelation

of the goodness of God.

Next thing was I re-established another principle:

all things work together for good, Roman's eight.

All things.

Doesn't say some things.

All things work together for good.

For those who love God have been called to his purpose.

Well that is me and that's you.

But it doesn't say God causes everything

and doesn't say that everything that happens in your life

is good.

But here is what it says.

God will cause all things to work together for good.

I call it the mystery and the majesty of Christ.

And number three, if those two things are true

the third is true also.

Something good is just about to happen.

Because in God's majesty and in his mysteries

he will take and fashion everything we go through

and work it into something that will glorify him.

So anyway, this is James Gall, that's my story

and I'm sticking to it.