2. Day by day and with each passing moment, Strength I find to meet my trials here; Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment, I've no cause for worry or for fear. He whose heart is kind beyond all measure Gives unto each day what He deems best-- Lovingly, it’s part of pain and pleasure, Mingling toil with peace and rest. Ev'ry day the Lord Himself is near me With a special mercy for each hour; All my cares He fain would bear, and cheer me, He whose name is Counselor and Pow'r.

3. The protection of His child and treasure Is a charge that on Himself He laid; "As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure," This the pledge to me He made. Help me then in every tribulation So to trust Thy promises, O Lord, That I lose not faith's sweet consolation Offered me within Thy holy Word. Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting, E'er to take, as from a father's hand, One by one, the days, the moments fleeting, Till I reach the promised land.

4. Goodness Sovereignty Suffering Evil The Fall Adam Corruption The “U” Transgression Redemption High View Trust

5. 1.God is good and sovereign. 2.God created everything perfectly. 3.Adam committed evil. 4. Evil causes suffering. 5.Adam’s evil resulted in suffering and corruption. 6.Adam’s sin is imputed to us. 7.We commit our own evil by transgressing God’s will. 8.The penalty for these transgressions is life in the U. 9.We should expect to experience suffering. 10.Suffering isn’t evil, it’s the just penalty for evil. 11.We deserve Hell, but God graciously hasn’t sent us there. 12.We can’t complain about our reduced sentence. 13.The U is our opportunity to be saved – it’s God’s plan for redemption. 14.What suffering would I NOT endure to have this “opportunity? 15.Life in the U is God’s grace in shoe leather. 16.We need a high view of God, a low view of us, and horror of sin. 17.Evil is not the “problem” - at most it contains some mystery. 18.Just because we can’t see good in His plan doesn’t negate its goodness (see #1). 19.If I knew everything He knew I wouldn’t change a thing. 20.God is displaying His glory in both wrath (suffering) and mercy (blessing). 21.God is not finished; He has redeemed His elect. 22.Sin and suffering will end, and we will once again live with Him forever.

6. Good Sovereign Evil Suffering Adam Sin Garden Transgress Hell The “U” Eternity Complain Problem Mystery Grace Salvation Biblical Reality New Heaven New Earth

10. TIME  Bad Good  Garden New Heaven New Earth The Fall

11. TIME  Bad Good  Eternity The “U”

14. Out of Twinkies Bad Gifts FluLossBetrayal Broken Heart CancerDeathHellInjury Fruit Cake

19. Natural Disasters

22. Would someone PLEASE feed the cat!!!

31. God SCBC Puppies Cocoa Puffs Marshmallow FluffEvilSuffering Rain Spinach NE Patriots Neil’s Good and Bad Baskets

33. Garden Heaven The Fall