Most of you know that those are the words of Jesus recorded in John 14:1. What is interesting to me is that two chapters later, in 16:33, He also said, “In this world you will have trouble.”  What this tells me is that living in this world is troublesome but we don’t have to be troubled.  We live in a fallen world.  We see the brokenness on every level.  Trouble is inevitable but a troubled heart is fixable.  I am often troubled by troubles.  Not only my own but of those I see everywhere.  I ache over broken relationships.  I cringe when I see and hear anger.  I grieve over the sickness, suffering and death that cancer brings to people’s lives.  One reason I have a hard time watching too much news is because I am a wimp.  Story after story of suffering and conflict on top of what I already know is too much to take on.  So, if trouble is going to be present all the way to glory, how can we live without a troubled heart?  The answer is in John 14:1, “Believe in God and believe also in Me.”  In other words, trust Him.  Dallas Willard writes, “Faith is simply an understanding of how things are, wedded to a commitment to live one’s life in light of that understanding.”  The news reports a few things taking place in our world but God’s Word reminds us of how things really are.  We learn that God is the Maker of heaven and earth and that He sustains all things by His word.  We learn that He is good and that His steadfast love endures forever.  We learn that He is present and that He is the God of all Comfort.  The trouble with trouble is that it is easy to forget the goodness of God in the land of the living.  We’ll see on Sunday that a proper mindset about trouble is part of making disciples.  See ya’all on Sunday for, “The Trouble with Trouble.”