Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski explore the One Year Bible reading plan together. In this episode, the hosts wrestle with a hard truth: that suffering is genuinely good for us, even when we cannot bring ourselves to admit it in the middle of it.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:65-80 - The psalmist reflects on how God's goodness is revealed through affliction, describing suffering as a guardrail for the soul that draws us back to his decrees.

In This Episode:

Why God uses suffering as a guardrail and what it means that the psalmist called his affliction good
The difference between what is good and what is pleasant, and why we confuse the two in hard seasons
How Psalm 119:73 frames God as our Designer and what that means for questions of identity and purpose
Why a leader's personal hope is a corporate asset, and the crucial difference between a wound and a scar

Key Quote: "Wounds are for your inner circle, your counselor, your journal, and for God. Once it becomes a scar, you are not asking for help anymore. You are offering hope."

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