{"id":632,"date":"2011-08-21T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=632"},"modified":"2011-08-21T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:04:26","slug":"trust-me-and-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2011\/08\/trust-me-and-swallow.html","title":{"rendered":"Trust Me and Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Job 13:15<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis stuff is nasty,\u201d my daughter Becky groaned. \u201cDo I have to take it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust me and swallow,\u201d I replied as I maneuvered the spoonful of medicine into her mouth.\u00a0 Her face contorted into grimaces horrible to behold as the bitterness hit her tastebuds.<\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s how I feel, Lord<\/em>, I thought. <em>I may be calm on the outside, but inside I\u2019m making terrible faces.\u00a0 This trial is too tough for me to handle. How can I take this bitter medicine?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Still clutching the medicine spoon, my own words echoed the answer. God is trustworthy, whether I understand His ways or not.\u00a0 God is the Great Physician and knows far better than I what\u2019s best for me. Perhaps the Lord prescribed this bitter medicine for me so that I can show my trust now, while the going is rough. Maybe this heartbreak is what my faith needs in order to grow &#8212; and God is holding the spoon saying, \u201cMy child, trust me and swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. \u00a0\u00a0Job 13:15 \u201cThis stuff is nasty,\u201d my daughter Becky groaned. \u201cDo I have to take it?\u201d \u201cTrust me and swallow,\u201d I replied as I maneuvered the spoonful of medicine into her mouth.\u00a0 Her face contorted into grimaces horrible to behold as the bitterness hit her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[30,61,142],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-special-messages","tag-god","tag-surrender","tag-trials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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