MAIN IDEA || Suffering is not proof that the Christian faith should be disqualified — it’s a purposeful tool He uses to accomplish his plans.
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CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION:
1. Have you or someone you love ever struggled with one of these misconceptions?
3 ‘Spiritually Fatal’ Misconceptions“
- If God allows or uses suffering in our lives, he must be punishing us.”
- “If God allows me to suffer, it’s only because I’m doing something wrong.”
- “If God allows us to suffer, never ask ‘why?’ because he doesn’t ever tell us.”
2. We know God purposefully used the suffering of his beloved son, Jesus, to express His love for us. So why do you think we’re so quick to categorize suffering as unfair, cruel and outside of God’s plans for us?
3. How might this picture of a Chrsitian’s eternal future help you (or someone you’re trying to encourage) endure suffering?
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast. ~ Timothy Keller Making Sense of God
