How to Live Through a Bad Day {Part 4}

Aim Your Hard Questions at God

Hebrews 12:2 (MSG) – Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and
finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight
of where he was headed–that exhilarating finish in and with God— he
could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And
now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
Matthew 27:46 – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Lesson 4 – Aim your hard questions at not .

During the Why

1.  during tragedy.

• Trust in His .

2 Corinthians 1:3 – “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.”

• Trust in His .

2 Corinthians 1:20 – For no matter how many promises God has made, they
are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the
glory of God.

• Trust in His .

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly
we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For
our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that
far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what
is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

• Jesus experienced the worst on earth so we could experience
the .

2. in the lesson.

“Pain is a passport that can take you places you couldn’t have gotten any
other way” – Levi Lusko

3.  on the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:26 (NLT) – And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For
example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit
prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
Romans 15:13 (NLT) – I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you
completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will
overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

4. in the “why”.

Hebrews 12:28-29 (NLT) – “Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is
unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy
fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire.”

Psalm 22:22-24 (NLT) – “I will proclaim your name to my brothers and
sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people. Praise the Lord, all
you who fear him! Honor him, all you descendants of Jacob! Show him
reverence, all you descendants of Israel! For he has not ignored or belittled
the suffering of the needy. He has not turned his back on them, but has
listened to their cries for help.”

• Real worship is when life doesn’t make sense.