When our formulas fail, or when God's answer to our pleas for relief is "not right now" or "not in the way you hoped," we can be confident these are gifts that will ultimately show God’s power being perfected in our weakness.

The rainbow is not God’s rubber stamp on our desires. The rainbow is God’s promise that in his mercy, the war bow of heaven now points not at us, but himself.

In this excerpt from Known and Loved, author Glenna Marshall helps us see how Christians need to wrestle with the difficult passages in Scripture while remembering we are deeply loved and redeemed in Christ.