Learning on the way
Share a difficult circumstance in your life that you look back on now and see that God was working for your good and His glory, even doing a work that was beyond your imagination. What did you learn about yourself in that time? What did you learn about God during that time?
Have you ever had to make a difficult decision like Elimelech and Naomi? What steps did you take to make the decision? How did things turn out? What would you do differently if you were faced with a similar situation in the future? How do you see God’s Providence at work in your good and bad decisions?
What relationships has God brought into your life that you weren’t sure about but turned out to be God giving you exactly what you needed? How did God use that relationship to make you more like Him? How did God use the relationship to fulfill His purposes in your life?
What are some “glimpses of hope” God has given you in difficult circumstances? How did you discover those glimpses of hope? What biblical truths were the foundations of those hopes?