How does a Christian best deal with bad news when it comes? We have to keep our faith anchored in Jesus Christ and His promise that we have been “predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus” (Romans 8:29). God will not give up in that effort.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingerich remembered, “I was dramatically shaped by my grandmother and aunts, because they convinced me when I was four years old that there was always a cookie available. It might be baked or might be store-bought, but it’s in a jar somewhere. Today when I open up the cupboard and the cookie isn’t there, I don’t say, ‘Gee, there’s no cookie.’ I say, ‘I wonder where the cookie is.'”

The next time bad news knocks on your door, go looking for the cookie; with God in control its got to be somewhere.

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