Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
1. What are your struggles? What are the challenges you face? What do you want fixed in some way?
2. In regards to this struggle, where are you tempted to trust or look to for hope, help and/or happiness in the midst of your trials?
Trusting in other hopes, even when mixed with faith, is a dead hope that is fleeting, dimmed, and even finished when troubles come. Are you trying to mix your faith in God with faith in other things of the world (which is still a form of idolatry because it is a false and earthly savior)?
3. Review 1 Peter 1:3-7 and consider the living hope that is found in the resurrection of Christ. Choose one of these truths to meditate on in light of your struggle today.
- Recall his great mercy and how it has caused us to be born again to a living hope through Christ’s resurrection.
- Remember the imperishable, undefiled, unfading inheritance that is being kept in heaven for you.
- Think about how God’s power is guarding your faith for the final salvation to come.
- Contemplate how God is using your trials to “dent” your idols and purify your faith.
4. Refer back to the struggle, challenge, or trial you identified in question 1.
How might God purify your faith and deepen your hope as you walk through them in light of eternity? How might walking faithfully with Him through your trial be a way you are preparing for the day you will see Him again? How might you rejoice at what God is doing and will one day complete?