Living in the Meantime - Adversity Attitude Advice - Trials of Life

Living in the Meantime (Jeremiah 29:11)
Jeremiah writes to the Exiles in Babylon.
How do you live when your dream world turns into a nightmare?

1. Adversity
   Four reasons for adversity:

2. to provide loving discipline

3. to reveal God's grace and God's glory

4. to encourage spiritual growth

5. to enhance Christian service

6. Attitude
   The Exiles attitude was defined as:
   a. despondent, disrupted lives
   b. felt God deserted them
   c. they lost their song

7. Advice
   a. accept your present state of things
   b. adjust to the [winds of] change
   c. acknowledge God's providence
   d. appropriate God's provision
   e. ascertain God's perspective