| Love God
Love others | |
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| You allow Scripture to inform your view of God | You neglect the Bible and only focus on your trials. The difficulties and sufferings shape the way you see God, rather than trusting in God’s Word for how God reveals Himself |
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| Accurate view of God’s attributes and promises | God is distorted, you allow your circumstances to distort your view of God as unwise, not good, unfair, unloving, etc. |
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| Afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, struck down, weak, calamities, insults, and hardships | Afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, struck down, weak, calamities, insults, and hardships |
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| You will still have trials and hardships but you see God’s purpose and sovereignty behind every experience | |
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| (Blessings)
Hope, press on, meditate on God’s Word, depend on Him, seek God’s will, fellowship with others, His power in you | Discouraged, depressed, give up, don’t study Scripture, pray only for deliverance, seek own will, rely on own strength, self-pity, isolate |
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