Pray for endurance and hope in situations of hardship. Read Romans 8:1–39. Reflect on verses 18–30. Suffering is all around us. The news is filled with unimaginable tragedy and disaster, and few among us are strangers to pain and brokenness. Have the hardships of life ever caused you to doubt God? How do you reconcile the reality of human suffering with the promises of God? The second half of Romans 8 reminds us that this present world is corrupted by sin and
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