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Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Mary Demuth’s new study,You don’t have to venture far from your phone or the screens in your life to find pain. It’s everywhere. Trauma has permeated our feeds on a micro and macro scale. Everywhere, people are suffering. It’s overwhelming, and it’s pervasive. And because of the fall of humankind, it’s to be expected.
These are not the passages we post on Instagram, but they are instructive. The Lord meant for the story of Job to be in the Bible, after all. Why? Because in this world we will suffer. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus are our coursework. How He encountered everyday people like you and me is wholly and beautifully instructive. Not only that, but the gospel is clear: Jesus not only loved us, but He fully carried out the rescue mission of the Father. He bore the weight of every one of our sins on the cross, an innocent One dying for the guilty, His blood pouring from a crowned brow of thorns. He did this for me. He did this for you. Because of love and justice.
This is the place we find ourselves, balancing like a teeter-totter between the now and the not yet. Now, we are kingdom workers seeking to love God and serve others as we bumble through life. Now, we long to see people experience the very real redemption of Jesus. Now, we are still encumbered by sin, and we have to grapple with the sad reality that people can act inhumanely toward others—yes, even in the church, yes, even when the person is a leader in the church.
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