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Seasons: Pain and Hardship
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
The Inevitable: The Resurrection
God interrupts the inevitable.
• God never changes.
• Upon His return & new reign, there will be no more suffering.
• Death was overcome on Calvary.
• And when He paid it all, we gained the right to be called ‘sons and daughters’.
Foretold centuries before it happened, fulfilling >300+ prophecies in the process, Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection were the penultimate inevitability, the culmination of God’s plan to redeem and restore His people to Himself.
The Inevitable: Suffering
Many areas of life feel out of our control - inevitable. Rather than focusing on our powerlessness, what if embracing the inevitable could be an act of Grace?