After reading today’s passages, use the guiding content below to help you reflect, respond, and engage with one another.
In the beginning, sinful people were blocked from the life-giving presence of God. In the end, God’s redeemed people are invited to live fully in His presence.
How are broken things being made new or restored to God? In prayer and in the comments, reflect on what it means for you to experience restoration with God and how that truth affects your daily life.
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I remember many years needing to memorize the vs in 1 cor 13, and it’s always amazing the way the living word becomes so real in different seasons of our lives. The wisdom of this world is so fleeting and must be so childlike, perhaps even more so infantile to the great all knowing creator. I find myself longing more and more everyday for him and the day when he will reach out and bring us home and we will full understand all his goodness.
I have undeserved access to the King.
“God’s dwelling place is with man.” I think that we sometimes forget that God’s intention was always to be in relationship with us. He desires us now and someday we’ll have perfect relationship with Him again!
Understanding that there is a pathway to restoration with God brings hope and purpose to my daily life. It means acknowledging a renewed and reconciled relationship with God, a healing of the brokenness caused by separation, sin, and the consequences of my actions.
This truth impacts me in profound ways:
1. **Hope and Purpose:** It gives me a sense of meaning beyond the challenges I face each day, fostering hope and purpose in the midst of life’s uncertainties.
2. **Forgiveness and Redemption:** I am encouraged to seek forgiveness and embrace redemption, freeing myself from the weight of guilt and committing to positive transformation.
3. **Guidance and Comfort:** Restored connection with God offers me guidance and comfort, providing strength and assurance as I navigate the ups and downs of life.
4. **Compassion and Love:** Experiencing God’s restoration cultivates compassion and love within me, inspiring grace and understanding for myself and others.
5. **Transformation:** Believing in restoration inspires my personal transformation, aligning my life with values that reflect divine principles of love, justice, and mercy.
In this way, the truth of restoration with God shapes my attitudes, behaviors, and relationships, contributing to a more purposeful and meaningful daily existence.
A well thought out response. Thanks for taking the time to share your insights!
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Restoration feels like true peace at last when the God who can level a mountain gathers the lambs to snuggle near his chest. What a powerful image of the might and gentleness of God.
@MARI V.. I’m sorry you are having trouble with patience with mum. As I held you in prayer, the story of the girl in my soul kitchen came to mind.. (I recently, I think, wrote about her) Here’s the thing dear sister, as I found out, it is not necessarily that the one causing the hurt needs to change or be corrected, BUT GOD, that our hearts need to change too. Remembering past hurts, will not heal today’s troubles. Leave them with Jesus, at the cross, and remember getting older is a struggle too for our elderly parents, the things they cannot do now , the reliance on their children, the adjustments to be made. It’s not easy. Speak to God, sister.. He will guide your heart to be right with mum.. Was not intending to write a missive, sorry.❤