Under Authority: The Bad with the Good

Please give the Scripture authority over you in the areas that you don't want to hear because of you don't how will he ever heal you? [...] What's going to happen when your heart is broken and you feel like a failure (condemnation) and the bible says "when our hearts condemn us he is greater than our hearts"? How can God come in and give you hope and give you love unless you give the bible the authority over you to give you the good things? If you don't let God have authority over you to tell you the bad things, how will he ever heal you? -Tim Keller

Good point. If we can't trust him with the "bad" things, it diminishes our ability to trust him with the good things. Trust and obedience in what is hard makes trusting the great and precious promises plausible.  If we reject his authority over us, we will eventually reject his benevolence upon us.