free ebook Bible study on resilience

Is God growing your faith and character to be more resilient? A new eBook Bible study on resilience for your personal times with God.

This year keeps bringing about the same question: why?

We’re grappling with a lot of difficult things as a society – a pandemic, racism, unrest, a particularly draining election season. And I’m not sure if it’s this way for you, but it seems like individually we are being hit hard as well. Illnesses (Covid or otherwise), mental health trouble, and bad news, right in our own homes.

Why? Why are we going through these things?

Those can tend to be my first questions. And then, what are you doing, God? I want to know; I want to understand. Romans 8:28 easily springs to mind: “For we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.”

I believe it. And yet…it doesn’t feel good. I just want 2020 to be over, as if putting up a new calendar will magically change our circumstances.

Here’s one thing God is doing in this time: he is growing our resilience.

Resilience means “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness” and also “the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity,” according to Oxford Languages.

And like training your memory or your muscles, it’s not something that happens magically overnight.

The Bible tells us plainly we won’t always have it easy in this life. Jesus tells his disciples in John 16:33 – “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

God knows that our broken world comes complete with decay, with brokenness, with struggle. He knows our own sinful natures will drag us down. He’s not surprised and doesn’t get overwhelmed by bad news.

So what does he do? He redeems our darkest and most challenging moments and use them for the purpose of growing us to be more like him.

A Bible Study on Resilience

This has been on my heart for a long time. A while back, I wrote a blog post focusing on Bible verses about resilience. But it just wasn’t enough. This is something to really dig deep into. We need to better understand:

God’s eternal qualities
Jesus’s resilience
what resilient faith does for us
God’s purpose for resilience and how he teaches us
his divine promises when it comes to the hard things in life

I hope this Bible study will help focus your thoughts on the resilient faith God is building in you, and encourage you when life seems overwhelming. I know this year has been anything but easy, but I believe that good things are coming. A revival is coming, and we can end this year stronger than when we started.

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