Life is often hard, but God is always good. He is infinitely compassionate and benevolent. His love for us is both unfailing and unconditional.

God cares about us so much that he has obligated himself to help us endure our afflictions, to produce goodness from them, and to rectify them as he deems best.

A promise he conveyed through Joseph in the Old Testament centuries ago encapsulates his commitment.

The promise—God will surely come to your aid—applies to every hurting person who walks in harmony with him.

Nature Of God’s Aid

How does God come to our aid during tough times?

First, he helps us cope with our distress by delivering peace, hope, comfort, strength, and stamina as we walk in harmony with him.

Second, he infuses our suffering with meaning and purpose by ultimately using it to benefit us and those within our sphere of influence.

Third, he resolves our situation in accordance with the designs and objectives of his plans for us and for the people in our orbit.

Right Expectations

God’s threefold response to our suffering may be well and good from a heavenly perspective, but if we had our druthers, his aid would be preventive.

He would arrange our lives so that we never experienced deprivation or discomfort while still accommodating our desires.

At the very least, he would mitigate the hardships we did encounter by lessening their intensity and shortening their duration.

However, as we know from experience, God does not always alleviate our distress as we wish for ourselves or expect from him.

Suffering Prompts Doubts

For this reason, suffering can prompt doubts about God’s goodness, making us reluctant to trust him.

We are not alone in this regard. Every Bible hero wrestled with the same issue at some point in their lives.

However, as they learned—and we must remember—suffering is not evidence that God is untrustworthy.

Instead, it is the inevitable consequence of the sin that plagues the world.

God’s Promise Evidences Six Truths

This basic understanding of why we suffer is generally sufficient when life is pleasant, but it can seem sorely inadequate in the midst of pain, anguish, or grief.

On what basis do we trust God, then?

The answer: his promise of aid and the fact that he cannot lie by nature.

The pledge—God will surely come to your aid—encompasses six inherent truths that affirm his character, compassion, and competence and justify our trust in him.

God exists. He is present with us. He sees our plight. He cares for us. He has the resources to help us. He has obligated himself to help us.

Note the emphatic phrase in the promise.

It does not merely say, “God will come to your aid.” Instead, it declares, “God will surely come to your aid.”

Primacy Of Faith

Trusting God amid affliction is easy when our ordeals are brief, infrequent, and mild, and when they never violate our sense of fairness.

However, trusting him when our suffering is severe, ongoing, or inequitable can be difficult.

These conditions require us to exercise faith, which is a choice, not a feeling.

Exercising faith means choosing to believe what God has revealed about himself in nature and in the Bible rather than inferring from our afflictions that he is mean, aloof, powerless, or nonexistent.

By faith, we walk in harmony with God despite our distress, trusting that he is utterly good, that his ideas and methods are always superior to ours, and that his love for us is indeed unfailing and unconditional.

By faith, we believe that he will fulfill his promise of aid.

Walking In Harmony With God

God provides a common good for everyone, but only those who walk in harmony with him have access to the full array of his aid.

Walking in harmony with God requires us to be spiritually reborn, to commune with him regularly, and to abide by his principles and precepts as consistently as we can.

We can begin walking in harmony with God at any time, regardless of our past unbelief or present unrighteousness.

However, because of our sinful nature, we cannot live in consonance with God by our own efforts alone. We must humbly enlist the assistance of the Holy Spirit, who indwells reborn believers.

In response to this contrite reliance, the Holy Spirit strengthens our stamina, intensifies our noble desires, reinforces our self-discipline, and directly empowers us as needed.

Personal Transformation

God changes us for the better over time as we walk in harmony with him amid affliction. This transformation is part of his aid package.

With our permission, he instills in us a heartfelt desire to reorient our lives around his plans, priorities, principles, and precepts, and then sets about fulfilling it.

He produces in us the divine attributes that constitute true contentment.

God Is Enough

God also draws near to us as we walk in harmony with him in times of distress, another aspect of his promised aid.

Over time, he reveals aspects of his excellence we would never grasp if life were always easy.

Through our adversities, we learn that he truly is who he claims to be—our refuge, comforter, redeemer, deliverer, and friend.

We come to understand that when other sources of contentment fade, God himself is enough to satisfy our soul.

Welcome to WillSurely.com

This website aims to raise awareness about the certainty of God’s promise to help those who are hurting as they walk in harmony with him.

The nearby Level One menu expands on this promise. The Level Two dropdown menus address the paradox between our suffering and God’s goodness.

Both levels offer insights into walking in harmony with him.