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As you make the below lists, make sure to note times you’ve been hurt or angry in response to the events happening. Physical Corruption 1. Make a list of things in your life that have broken, rotten, or worn out causing you to have to work either to fix them or to earn money to replace them. · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ 2. Make a list of illnesses or injuries you have had. · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ 3. Make a list of sicknesses, injuries, or deaths of those close to you that have caused you inconvenience or emotional pain. · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________
Other People’s Sin Make a list of the sins of others that have negatively impacted your life. It could be anything from their selfishness keeping you from doing what you would have enjoyed to outright meanness directed toward you. · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________
Your sin Make a list of how your sins have caused difficulty in your life or the lives of others. · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ · __________________________________________ When we don’t have realistic expectations, we aren’t living in truth. That gives Satan an opportunity to sidetrack us and to get us to react in ways that aren’t fitting with the children of God. Many times, we confuse realistic expectations with reasonable expectations. Reasonable expectations are the way life should happen if the world wasn’t corrupt and people treated each other with kindness. Realistic expectations are achieved by seeing the world and people the way they really are and remembering it. 1. Go through the above lists and put an “R” in front of which ones based on everything that you’ve observed in the world and history that people would never expect to happen. 2. Spend at least five minutes looking over your list and thinking about these difficult things being part of living in a corrupt world. What if anything changed in your view? ______________________________________________________________________ 3. Pray and thank God that someday He is taking you out of this world into a perfect place where there is no corruption. What are your thoughts and feelings? ______________________________________________________________________
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