crucial we understand that God is more focused on changing our faulty beliefs, attitudes, and expectations than He is on removing us from the difficult situations we go through. After all, God doesn’t say, “Take captive every event”; He says, “Take captive every thought” (2 Cor. 10:5). God doesn’t say, “Whatever situations are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable, think about such situations”; He says, “Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable, think about such things” (see