Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

John 1:46 ESV

Have you ever walked through a circumstance and asked, “What good can possibly come from this?”

Perhaps this question came when we endured a health crisis, familial discord, financial upheaval, or disappointment. We wondered how we would make it, when it would end, where God was, and how redemption could possibly take place. Sometimes even the people around us discounted us and assumed our defeat.

Nathanael initially responded to Jesus with this same doubt. In John 1, Philip, a new disciple, was excited to…