• Think about a meaningful time or season of worship (of any kind), or of closeness to God, that you’ve experienced. What made that time so meaningful? What did it feel like? How did it affect your thoughts and actions? • How has your idea of what worship is (and isn’t) changed over the course of your Christian life? How has your own approach to worship before God changed, as a result? Read Revelation 7:9–8:3. Then read it again. Once more, if you need to, to get the whole picture of what’s taking place here. Then move on. • How did you feel as you reflected on this scene? Were you excited? Uncomfortable? Scared? Or did you have a hard time resonating with it at all? In any case, why? • Regardless of your answer, how does (or should) knowing our eternal future with Jesus help us make worship—however we do it—a higher priority in our lives? • How easy is it for you to accept the idea that you’re created for God’s pleasure—and that God delights in growing you even further? Explain. Then, read Revelation 21:1–7, 21:10–22:5. Again, read it as many times as you need to for the images here to sink in. Then think once more about the people you’ve walked in Christ with. Consider this: They, too, with be with you for eternity. In fact, you’re going to spend eternity with every believer who’s ever walked the earth. Then, reflect: • How can remembering your destination enable you to begin living eternal life more fully right now? • Where is it most apparent that you’re not yet “one who conquers”? How can the One who HAS conquered help you in that battle? • Even more important than you: Who are the “conquered” in your life right now? Who needs joy? Healing? Comfort? A sense of God’s presence? Refreshing? A sense of their value to God? How could God use you to help bring that to them?
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