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If you haven’t completed the study guide for the lesson about the corruption of the world, it would be best to do so first.

Go through your answers for the following. For each one as you can, remember the difficulty and perhaps the emotional reaction you went through. Whereas this may seem redundant, it gives you an opportunity to see difficulties in your past with more clarity. You are able to retrain your mind to see your personal life events with God’s purpose being the bigger picture. Why wouldn’t you want to not only put all that pain to good use but to give purpose to it? 

• Original: List thoughts and feelings you remember having at the time. Look at them perhaps through different eyes, as God’s discipline in directing your focus toward Him, to learn to trust Him more, to understand His heart more.

• New: What different thoughts and feelings do you have? 

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.

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2.          Make a list of illnesses or injuries you have had.

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3.              Make a list of illnesses or injuries, or deaths of those close to you that have caused you inconvenience or emotional pain.

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 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.

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Your sin

• Make a list of how your sins have caused difficulty in your life or the life of others.

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