This week, we look at some common spiritual questions that both Christians and non-believers ponder around tithing, free choice versus predestiny, and even hell.  

In this life, we’ll all experience pain and suffering. While suffering can be difficult to understand, it always has a purpose because God’s sovereign over it. Since it’s inevitable, consider how you can use your suffering to receive God’s comfort, comfort others, and grow close to Jesus.

God has entrusted each of us with unique talents. Every talent includes a responsibility from God, profitability for God, and accountability to God. We must use our talents or lose them. 

Do you have stress or anxiety when you think about your money? Do you think about where you spend your money and what that says about your heart? Consider allowing Jesus to speak into your financial life and growing past any anxiety you have over finances.

While God’s truth is always the same, the way that people respond differs.  One reason this is true is because the truth is the same every time, but the soil is different.  Consider how you react to God’s truth and His call on your life.

What if time is a gift from God? Do you ever think about how God wants you to spend your time? Consider what stewarding your time wisely means and how that might impact your life and the lives of those around you.

Do you think it’s possible that God’s calling you to move more of your life from your responsibility to His responsibility? Consider that God wants you “all in” with your life. And He will give you clarity when you seek and work to hear Him.

In Scripture, we read that Jesus asked people to invest wealth into the kingdom. Does that feel like a habit that Christians used to do, or still do? Financial investing in the kingdom grows a trust in the King. As such, consider what role giving has in your spiritual life. And think about what role gratitude has in your giving.

Everybody has a heart, yet some people have God’s heart.  You can access and acquire God’s heart when you give, pray, and fast. Consider how you can orient yourself in these ways to shape your heart more like God’s.

How often do you celebrate all that God has done in your life? Pastor Tim Hawks reminds us of all that was learned during Defying Gravity as we all celebrate the freedom and future that we have when we see God as the owner of everything.