God's Grace Is Sufficient - pgs 226-228
Realize
1. Why do you think many people choose to just give up - on their marriages, their jobs, their children?
2. Describe a time when you were tempted to give up, throw in the towel, and say, "I just can't take any more." What caused you to feel that way? What did you do?
Reflect
3. Read 2 Corinthians 11:22-30. Do you think Paul ever felt like he just couldn't take any more? What do you think kept him going?
4. Now read 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. In what ways do you think Paul's "thorn in the flesh" was used by God? What did he learn about God's grace that he might not have learned any other way?
Respond
5. List two or three circumstances in your life that you cannot handle on your own. Then, write these words next to each circumstance: "Your grace is sufficient for me."
Prayer of the Day
Lord, at times I feel that I simply can't take any more. I feel so very weak. Yet You promise that Your grace is sufficient for me and that Your strength is made perfect in my weakness. Help me to walk in Your grace and Your strength today. Thank You that, by Your grace, I can go on. Amen.
1 comment:
This has made a tremendous impact on my job. I must confess that I read this particular lie several weeks ago. I was thumbing through the book and thinking about my job (I can't take much more- they keep giving me all this stuff to do) when I saw the title of the lie. I was immediately convicted! The Lord also got my attention today with another lie that I was relying on today to get me through- the lie of "I shouldn't have to suffer". I thought that I deserved to be excused from a fitness assessment- after all I've been exercising so that should be good enough. On top of that it looked like rain and I don't like to get wet. The Lord left it cloudy but held off the rain and forced me to realize that the fitness assessment was exactly what I needed to do. I was to trust Him to help me and not anything else. Sometimes, I feel like I am so slow to fully start putting these lessons into practice. I'm so thankful that the Lord is extremely patient and that He gives us new mercies every morning.
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