Disruptions

James says to count it all joy when we face trials. In this episode, Blake hands you a different word for “trial” — disruption — and makes the case that God never wastes one. Life settles into a groove; a disruption breaks it, and often that's exactly where we meet God in a new and deeper way.Anchored in James 1:2-4, this devotional gets personal. Blake shares the hardest disruption of his life — the death of his sister in 2001 — and the second disruption hidden beneath it: a false belief that good Christians are shielded from real suffering. What God taught him in that season reframes how we meet every interruption that levels us.Follow Before the Lord on Facebook (@BeforeTheLord) and Instagram (@beforethelorddevo). Get devotionals delivered to your inbox at blakescrawford.com/sign-up, or listen anytime at blakescrawford.com/listen.