Desperate for Hope: Questions We Ask God in Suffering, Loss, and LongingSample

How have you experienced God’s love and faithfulness toward you this week? Where have you sensed His presence? Pay attention to signs of His love and presence through specific incidents like answers to prayer, unexpected peace, comfort after reading Scripture, and so forth.

Read the following verses. Choose one, write that verse on a sticky note or note card, and put it in a prominent place to remind you of God’s love.

Psalm 18:19:
He brought me out to a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 56:8:
You yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?

Isaiah 54:10:
"Though the mountains move
and the hills shake,
my love will not be removed from you
and my covenant of peace will not be shaken,”
says your compassionate LORD.

Romans 8:31-32:
What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?

Romans 8:38-39:
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now read Psalm 31:7, and consider: what do you see in this verse, and what have you learned this week about being seen, known, and loved? Who can you share this truth with today?

For more of this study by Vaneetha Risner, visit lifeway.com/desperateforhope.