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Questions Week 8 Day 7

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DAY 28

REVELATION 21:1-5, 22:1-5


Chronic pain is different than temporary pain. Knowing suffering will end changes how we experience it. The world’s “chronic pain” is temporary, the Bible tells us. In breathtaking passages of poetic power, we learn that the broken cosmos will be remade and renewed. Scripture concludes with two great chapters on this theme. Healing, freedom, joy, and life itself become not just fleeting experiences but deep and permanent realities which displace fear and sorrow and suffering and death.


See how many different kids of renewal are promised in these chapters. Which one excites you the most?



FAMILY TIME— What is one thing that should be different about the world? Pray for things to change and tell your children about the future God is bringing about.

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DAY 27 

PSALM 23


Fortunately in Christ, we see that God not only enters into suffering but he redeems and transforms it. Jesus did not simply extend the promise of a future reward or a coming renewal to suffering people he met. He healed them, demonstrating God’s power over sickness, disease, possession, hunger, mental illness, and death itself. If we need to see God’s attitude toward suffering directly, here it is! Jesus grieved over the pain and losses of others, and he fought against the things that diminish and destroy life.

Moreover, his death and resurrection show that God can use the worst kind of suffering and evil for the greatest of great purposes. God’s followers should never ask for suffering, but when we trust in him in the midst of it, he can use painful things to transform us into creatures fit for heaven. The stories of saints and martyrs suggests that the experience of being sustained in the dark “valley of the shadow” can deepen our faith and character.


Have you ever experienced healing? Have you grown in suffering?



FAMILY TIME— Read Psalm 23 and get everyone to make a comment on it or ask a question about it.

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