Journeying and Journaling with God
Comfort: God Comes
Note: At the end of each chapter of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting, I include two reflection/action sections. One is Your Journey and one is Your Journal. Today, I’m sharing a few sample Comfort Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Your Comfort Journey
1. In past times of suffering, how did you begin to move from depression and alienation to communion with and comfort in God?
2. In our suffering, God divulges more of Himself. When our heart is grieved, God is the strength of our heart (Psalm 73:21-28). What will it look like for you to acknowledge your grief and groan to God for His strength?
Your Comfort Journal
1. Some wounds won’t be totally healed until heaven (Revelation 7). How can you connect to Christ’s resurrection power to face life with your wound?
2. What can’t be cured, can be endured.
a. Comfort originally meant co-fortitude. How does your connection with Christ fortify you? How does it en-courage you—pour courage into you?
b. How does communion with Christ help you to say, “Yes, I have a scar, but it is neither fatal nor final”?
3. What is your suffering teaching you about God’s power made perfect in your weakness?
Join the Conversation
Which of the interactions/questions/reflections most resonate with you?
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