God's Grace in our Suffering
9.24.23. Mars Hill UMC Acts 14:21-28 <Our Suffering> I would like to ask the question David Powlison posed in his book "God's Grace in Your Suffering": "In your life, what is the single most significant experience of suffering that you have gone through? It could be the most intense, the most painful, the most enduring suffering, the one that lasted the longest, the one that never went away, the most pervasive sorrow in your life, the thing that touched the most parts of your life, the one that put its fingerprints on everything, the most distressing, and the most devastating." There are four types of suffering in our lives: birth, aging, illness, and death. These different forms of suffering affect various developmental stages and ages. We are born into suffering. There is suffering for a baby to come out of a mother's womb, just as there is suffering for a mother during delivery. Hannah's suffering in her pre-K school experience is the most