When Faith Feels Like it Failed - Week 2
Sharable notes for the June 14, 2020 message. You can post these notes on your social platform!
Scriptures used: John 11:1-44; John 1:1-3; Isaiah 53:11; Hebrews 12:2
In Christ, every doctrine is made personal. Every belief we profess is not just a statement but a personal reflection of Him.
While suffering and evil are very difficult to understand, instead of thinking there's no point in it because we can't understand it, maybe we should think if God has infinite wisdom, then there may be a lot that I can’t perceive. I may just be looking at the wrong side of the tapestry.
God knows everything that’s going on in your life. He knows the end from the beginning. Even with that knowledge, and knowing that if your life is in Him, your eternity is in Him, He stills weeps for us in our pain.
Our suffering does not indicate a lack of love from Jesus.
Maybe on the other side of our empathy is a solution. Maybe on the other side of empathy life can be spoken to death.
When it feels like our faith has failed, it’s actually a chance for a stronger faith in God to emerge.
Reflect or meet with someone to discuss:
What difficult circumstance have you been through before, or going through now, that it's hard to see God in it or on the other side of it?
Have you been through something before that now you see what God did through it? Share that story with someone.
In what ways has or can difficult moments grow your faith in God?
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In our busy lives, suffering is considered an unwelcome guest. But could suffering really be a blessing from God? Because Christ suffered, we should also expect to suffer as we live for him. God will sustain us in our suffering and will use our suffering as a means to help us grow into the Christian he needs us to be in order to impact his world.