5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: God is Good | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 15, 2026
- I don't
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- Know what you're facing in your life right now,
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- But i want you to know that not only is god
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- Good, that god is good to you.
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- You are loved and cared for and the best and the worst days
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- Of your life.
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- In fact, quite honestly, i felt god's love for me
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- At times even more in the worst moments in life.
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- Scripture encourages us to draw near to god
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- And he will draw near to us.
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- He never changes
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- Do you ever find yourself asking
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- This question, is god good?
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- You might think, i know he's powerful.
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- I know he's in control, but is he good?
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- And in particular is he good to me?
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- One of my favorite scriptures for most of my life
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- Is found in proverbs chapter three, verses five and six.
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- You've probably already aware of it
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- In the new living translation.
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- It reads like this.
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- Trust in the lord with all of your heart.
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- Do not depend on your own understanding.
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- Seek his will and all you do.
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- And he will show you which path to take.
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- Well, i learned that text as a teenager.
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- But what happens when you find yourself in a situation
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- That's devastating?
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- How do you trust in the lord with all your heart
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- When that happens?
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- What happens when you've prayed
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- About something that really matters
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- And you don't get the answer that he needs?
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- What happens when someone else is praying for the same thing
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- And god says yes to them and no to you?
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- Or what happens when you've been praying for a loved one
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- And they die?
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- Is god still good?
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- Then?
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- Honestly, people have struggled with this question
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- Throughout the centuries.
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- I don't know if you've ever read the book of habakkuk.
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- He wrote this about 600 years before the birth of christ.
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- But when we read his words,
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- It could have been written honestly this morning.
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- This is what he wrote.
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- How long, o lord, must i call for help?
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- But you do not listen.
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- Violence is everywhere.
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- I cry, but you do not come to save.
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- Must i forever see these evil deeds?
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- Why must i watch all this misery?
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- Wherever i look, i see destruction and violence.
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- I'm surrounded by people who love to argue and fight.
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- Does it sound familiar?
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- And that was before
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- Social media blasted us with bad news from every direction.
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- Nothing made sense to habakkuk
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- Because everything felt out of control.
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- What he had to come back to was who god is, not
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- What he could see with his own human understanding.
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- He remembers that god's goodness is not tied
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- To what makes sense to us, but that he is god and he is good.
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- All the time.
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- So he closes out his prophecy this way in chapter three.
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- Even though the fig trees have no blossoms
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- And there are no grapes on the vines,
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- Even though the olive crop fails and the fields lie
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- Empty and barren, even though the flocks die
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- In the fields and the cattle barns are empty.
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- Yet i will rejoice in the lord.
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- I will be joyful in the god of my salvation.
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- The sovereign lord is my strength.
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- It's not possible for god to be good some of the time.
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- He is always good.
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- In psalm 34, david wrote this line.
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- Taste and see that the lord is good.
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- The interesting thing is that he was in one of the worst
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- Moments of his life.
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- When he wrote this, king saul was trying to have him killed.
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- David had lied to a priest.
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- Cost that man at 85 other priests and their families,
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- The very lives he's hiding out in the cave.
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- And yet he writes.
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- Taste and see that the lord is good.
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- He doesn't write. i'm good.
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- It was clear to him that he wasn't.
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- But he held on to the absolute truth that no matter what
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- Our circumstances are, god remains good.
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- I don't
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- Know what you're facing in your life right now,
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- But i want you to know that not only is god
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- Good, that god is good to you.
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- You are loved and cared for and the best and the worst days
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- Of your life.
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- In fact, quite honestly, i felt god's love for me
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- At times even more in the worst moments in life.
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- Scripture encourages us to draw near to god
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- And he will draw near to us.
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- He never changes the writer to the hebrews reminds us
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- Jesus christ is the same yesterday.
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- Today, and forever.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, we love that about you.
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- We love that you never change, that you are always good.
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- But i pray right now, lord, for anyone who is struggling
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- In the midst of a situation, it is not that
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- They will still be able to bring everything to you
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- Their fears, their anger, their hopes, their concerns.
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- Because you are good and you are god
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- And you never, never change.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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