God is working even when we don’t see it
Big Idea:
God works through suffering.
“Pain insists on being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world…. It plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.”
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C.S.Lewis
Psalm 42
Why have you forgotten me?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
How long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?
Psalm 10
Habakkuk
Hope in God, I shall again praise him
O Lord you hear the desire of the afflicted and will strengthen their heart.
God the Lord is my strength
God works through suffering.
God works through community.
God works through His timing.
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
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Thomas Aquinas